The World of Aviation

Australia’s competition regulator has approved the alliance between Virgin Australia and Etihad for a further five years. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) handed down its final decision on Friday, after giving the partnership the green light in a draft ruling at the end of October. Under the tie-up, which was first forged in

Airservices acting chief executive Jason Harfield says a review of the air traffic management provider’s processes will help put the organisation on the right path to meet the future aviation needs of the country. Harfield says a “business diagnostic and efficiency review”, which started in mid-November, would “look at everything we do, and how we do

Dr Fadi Aloul has been awarded the 2015 Global Engineering Deans Council (GEDC) Airbus Diversity Award for his work in developing a course that introduces first-year students to engineering. Airbus engineering executive vice president and patron of the diversity award Charles Champion presented Dr Aloul with his award in Adelaide on Wednesday. Dr Aloul is

While demand for air travel shows little sign of slowing at the end of a bumper year where lower fares have resulted in more passengers flying, domestic markets such as Brazil and Australia are feeling the effects of a sluggish local economy, new figures show. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) says total revenue passenger

Overcast conditions have greeted the arrival of Philippines Airlines’s inaugural flight to Cairns. Flight PR218 from Manila, operated by Airbus A320 RP-C8613, landed a little after 0700 local time on Thursday. The aircraft was on the ground in Cairns for about two hours before heading across the Tasman to Auckland, which is Philippine Airlines’ first destination

Boeing expects to begin major assembly of the third member of its 787 family of aircraft in 2016 after completing the detailed design of the 787-10. The 787-10’s first flight was forecast to take place in 2017, with first delivery to follow a year later, Boeing said in a statement on Wednesday (US time). Boeing