Angolan flag carrier TAAG Linhas Aereas de Angola – otherwise known as Angola Airlines — has ordered three Boeing 777-300ERs with options on three more, Boeing has announced. The West African airline said it would use the new aircraft to expand routes to Brazil, Portugal and elsewhere in Europe. The carrier currently operates three 777-200ERs
The long cherished dream of the flying car could be a commercial reality within the next year, according to a US company that last month completed the successful first flight of its “street-legal airplane.” The Transition, developed by Massachusetts based Terrafugia, features foldable wings, can be parked in a single car garage and can reach
The Fair Work Ombudsman has filed legal action against Jetstar over allegations the Qantas-owned budget carrier paid trainee pilots in Australia under cheaper New Zealand contracts. The case centres on claims Jetstar employed six trainee pilots under New Zealand work conditions “when it was foreseeable the work they were to perform was predominately in Australia.”
Malaysian budget carrier AirAsia X has started its daily service from Kuala Lampur to Sydney, with the carrier’s first A330 flight touching down at Kingsford-Smith this morning. The launch of Sydney services represents an important move for AirAsia X and comes days after the carrier ended flights to London and Paris. The long haul LCC
The federal government has rejected tougher regulation of Australia’s airports but has assigned the country’s competition watchdog to monitor airports for abuses of market power. That comes on the heels of a pair of reports on airports: the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s annual airport monitoring report and the results of an inquiry by the
The Pentagon has increased its projection of through life costs for the US F-35 program by nine per cent to $1.51 trillion, unwelcome news for a program already under fire for cost overruns. The estimate includes development costs since 1994, production of the full US requirement of 2443 aircraft and support costs over a period
