10 Years Ago Beechcraft delivered its 50,000th aircraft, a King Air 90B, at Wichita, Kansas, on March 23. The company was founded on April 1 1932 by Walter H Beech. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or

Qantas Group News in This Issue We Report the Delivery of an A380 and Three 737-800s to Qantas, an A320 to Jetstar and Two Fokker 100s to Network Aviation. Departing the Qantas Group Fleet Were a 747-400 of Qantas and a 737‑400 of Qantas/jetconnect. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become

Malaysia at the centerpiece of Qantas’ Asia plans? There seems little doubt that Qantas will pick Kuala Lumpur as its major hub for Asia after facing a host of obstacles for the Singapore option related to rights to key destinations. While there seems little doubt now about the location the make-up and structure of the

A global perspective on pilot pay rates The sometimes bitter dispute between the Australian and International Pilots Association on behalf of its long-haul pilots and Qantas for a salary package commiserate with their obvious skills and working life demands is just the tip of a much larger problem for professionals in the embattled airline industry.