Even as the US Navy celebrated the Boeing F/A-18 Hornet’s 35th anniversary with the fleet at a ceremony at Naval Air Station Patuxent River this week, public debate remains around the platform’s future. Boeing is slated to continue the F/A-18 production line until the end of 2016, unless further orders are placed by the US
The government has extended the Heron Remotely Piloted Aircraft (RPA) deployment in Afghanistan until July 2014. Heron has been operating in Afghanistan since January 2010 from Kandahar Air Field, providing Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) support to the ADF in Uruzgan province and southern Afghanistan, and was expected to return to Australia at the completion
The Victorian government has pieced together a deal between Jetstar and Avalon Airport that will see the airline stay on until at least April 2015. Jetstar had announced last week that it was considering dropping Avalon due to services being unprofitable. Local and state media reported that the government is understood to be contributing the majority
The Royal Australian Navy has taken ceremonial delivery of its first two MH-60R ‘Romeo’ Seahawk helicopters in a ceremony at Lockheed Martin’s Owego, New York facility on Tuesday. The first two of 24 MH-60 Romeos being acquired under AIR 9000 Phase 8 to replace the S-70B Seahawk and the cancelled SH-2G Seasprite capability were handed
Following the US Federal Aviation Administration’s lead in early November, the EU’s Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has updated guidance on the use of portable electronic devices on board, including smartphones, tablets and e-readers, confirming that devices may be kept switched on in “Flight Mode” throughout all phases of flight without posing a risk to
The parent companies of American Airlines and US Airways, AMR Corp and US Airways Group, have announced the completion of their merger to formally become American Airlines Group Inc. It is expected to take up to two years for the two carriers to complete the merger of personnel and planes, particularly achieving the Single Operating
