The ‘user pays’ principle that has flourished under the previous two federal governments needs some careful analysis and scrutiny. Both CASA and Airservices Australia are required to provide a dividend to government by charging industry for their services. The 2006 Productivity Commission Report noted that government charges cost airline operators more in total than the

Qantas Group News in This Issue We Report the Delivery of an A320 to Jetstar and a Q400 to Qantaslink. Qantas Celebrated the 10th Anniversary of the Oneworld Airline Alliance on February 3 by Announcing That Two Aircraft in Its Fleet Would Carry Oneworld Titles. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

10 Years Ago The prototype Embraer R-99A (EMB-145SA) airborne early warning and control aircraft, PP-XSA, had its first flight from San Jose dos Campos on May 22. The Brazilian Air Force and Greek Air Force have placed orders for five and four examples respectively of this variant of the RJ-145 regional jet. On May 28

VB charts a course to navigate turbulent times In normal times most traditional airlines are happy to launch one or two new routes a year but these are far from normal times and Virgin Blue is hardly a normal airline. The airline that is one Australia’s great aviation success stories has grown into a major