The Vietnamese government has prevented two Australian executives of Jetstar Pacific, COO Daniela Marsilli and CFO Tristan Freeman, from leaving the country and is holding former CEO Luong Hoai Nam in custody as it investigates fuel hedging losses at the airline. Marsilli (a former managing director of National Jet, now Cobham Aviation Services Australia) and
Japan’s ANA has converted its 28 orders for the short range 787-3 to the 787-8 model, leading Boeing to reveal it is re-assessing the future of the 330-seat -3, for which there are now no orders in the 851 order backlog for the 787. “ANA’s primary business reason for adjusting their 787 model selection is
Freight airline Guggenheim Aviation Partners (GAP) has cancelled two of the four 747-8F freighter orders it was holding. The cancellation comes after the airline CEO had previously told Flightglobal and ATI that existing 747 freighters, many of which are currently laid up in desert boneyards due to the downturn in air freight business, may be
The first F-35B development aircraft, BF-1, successfully engaged its vertical lift fan in flight during a flight from NAS Patuxent River near Washington DC on January 7. The lift fan was engaged while the aircraft remained in forward flight between 210 and 180kts (385 and 330km/h) and remained engaged for a total of 14 minutes,
Perth based Quickstep Holdings Limited has appointed former Boeing executive John Johnson to the position of chief financial officer. Johnson has held senior positions including commercial manager of finance (divisional CFO) Hawker de Havilland; financial controller (divisional CFO) ASTA Components; assisted as manager for the Defence Integrated Distribution System project team for BAE Systems; and
Boeing has released its 2009 sales and delivery figures which show a dramatic drop in new aircraft sales compared to the records of recent years, although it did meet its delivery target for the year. In 2009, Boeing recorded 263 new commercial aircraft orders but only 142 net orders after cancellations were taken into account.
