Pan Am Sells Its to Pacific United Operations Airlines: Ailing PanAm stunned the avia- sion world during April when it announced the sale of its Pacific operations to the free world’s largest airline, United. The deal will nett PanAm some $US750m which it desperately needs to liquidate much of its accumulated deficit which in the

Department of Aviation Review Commences: As a direct result of Dick Smith’s book, Two Years in the Aviation Hall of Doom, which is also being serialised in this magazine, the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Expenditure has decided to look into the matters raised in the book. Additionally, the Committee will also accept submissions

Will Bae Sell the ATP Airliner to Moscow? In what would be a landmark thaw in East/West tensions Aeroflot are to investigate purchasing the British Aerospace ATP airliner. The ATP, a stretched, re-engined and vastly upgraded version of the venerable 748, is due to rollout from its Manchester facility early next year for a first

Is the Department of Aviation’s Right to Suspend Licences Orally a Serious Breach of Privilege? Intimidation is a terrible word. It is an even more terrible word when it is used in context to describe the relationship between a major Australian industry and its governing body, the Department of Aviation. The threat of intimidation to