Bringing Home Belle-issimo Blue Some people in the airline business quite disparagingly call Virgin Blue’s new Embraer 170s and 190s The Jungle Jets – a studied insult which implies that only Boeing and Airbus can build airliners. A little below the belt and even further from reality. Embraer is a Brazilian success story like the

Virgin Blue’s E-Jet attack on regional routes September was a big month for Virgin Blue. Not only did it celebrate its seventh anniversary of operations, but it took delivery of its first Embraer E-Jet, opened a new airport lounge in Canberra, and revealed a new assault on the nation’s capital and lucrative government travel accounts.

IOC for the C-17 The speed at which the C-17 was evaluated, ordered, delivered and cleared for operational service must be some sort of record for a peacetime military aircraft acquisition program. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login.

The Qantas Group has joined Virgin Blue in offering its passengers the ability to offset the carbon emissions of their flights through a carbon offset program dubbed ‘Fly Carbon Neutral’. Qantas CEO Geoff Dixon announced the scheme with federal environment minister Malcolm Turnbull in Canberra on September 18, with Qantas Group passengers able to pay