AirAsia’s Tony Fernandes It was apt that at recent Airbus Innovation Days the guest of honour was AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes, whose mantra is innovation. “We went from two planes to 100 today. In our first year we carried 200,000 passengers and this year we will carry 33 million passengers,” he said. This content is

Thunderstorms and aviation Aviation is littered with tales of aircraft that have fallen to the unforgiving jaws of the thunderstorm. From the smallest light aircraft to the mightiest airliner, size offers no assurance of safety and there is a particular vulnerability in the critical phases of flight close to the ground. Delta Airlines Flight 191

The Life Flight Trust Forty-four years ago a young plumber called Peter Button watched in horror as the Lyttleton to Wellington ferry, the Wahine, sank at the entrance to Wellington Harbour. Despite frantic rescue efforts, 52 people lost their lives only a few hundred metres off the coast of Seatoun, in what was to be

The renaissance of the Airbus A330While orders for the new-generation composite widebody airliners have been catching the headlines in recent years, Airbus has been pleasantly surprised by the strong sales for its A330 series. Originally launched in 1987 alongside its four-engined sibling, the A340, the A330 has now outlived production of the former and in