Air India has become the first airline to operate scheduled flights to Australia with the Boeing 787, with the airline’s inaugural direct flight from Delhi arriving in Sydney on Friday morning. The new daily flights, triangulated with Melbourne, marks Air India’s return to Australia after a 22-year absence. The flights are operated by 256-seat configured 787s,
Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti says his airline is in “no rush” to decide on the airline’s future fleet plans, which includes an evaluation of the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350. “Sometime over the next 12 months we’ll be evaluating what kind of fleet we’ll have post 2017-18 onwards, and we’re still in that process,
Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti has sought to put a positive slant on his airline’s $98.1 million loss after tax for the 2013 financial year, highlighting both the challenges faced and achievements recorded in a pivotal year for the transformation and growth of the airline. “While the financial results clearly did not meet our
Regional Express Holdings has posted a profit before tax of $19.2 million, despite what the airline’s chairman sees as a federal government “hell-bent on destroying regional aviation”. However, while its profit was 45 per cent down on the previous year, the airline laid claim to it retaining its position as the most profitable listed airline group in
Boeing and Northrop Grumman have demonstrated that improvements to the Super Hornet have halved the aircraft’s visibility on radar and have significantly extended its combat range. After three week of flight testing of the Advanced Super Hornet, the F/A-18 program partners tested conformal fuel tanks (CFT), an enclosed weapons pod and radar signature enhancements. Improvements to the
Thursday’s profit result was pretty anemic. At a time when Australia’s banks and Telstra are posting multi-billion dollar profits, Qantas barely broke even, with a $6 million after tax profit. That is a tiny margin on almost $16 billion in revenue, and a world away from the heady days of mid last decade when Qantas
