The rise and rise of Jetstar While it seems everyone has something to say about low-cost airlines, no-one can deny their success. Today budget airlines account for around 26 per cent of the global airline market. Their influence is being felt in regions that have been both quick to embrace low-cost travel and now others
It’s tempting to treat the newly-rechristened Bullet Train for Australia Party as something of an oddball joke since, well, it’s called the Bullet Train for Australia Party. Where Labor and the Liberals stand on the central ideologies of Western political philosophy, the Bullet Train Party evokes a particularly speedy form of public transport. During the
The world’s first operational F-35 unit squadron has been stood up The US Marine Corps Fighter Squadron VMFA-121 converted from F/A-18A/B Hornets to the F-35B short takeoff and vertical landing (STOVL) variant, with the unit’s first three F-35Bs delivered to its home base of Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Yuma in Arizona to coincide with
Geoff Dixon manoeuvres for control of Qantas against his former protege Alan Joyce. It is extremely difficult to get a clear picture of what the alleged plotters that make up Aviation Partners Australia (APA) Mark 2 actually want to achieve with Qantas. The plotters own a reported two per cent of the airline and, according
Evolutionary or Revolutionary? Maintaining a technological edge over peer competitors within the South-east Asian region has been one of the fundamentals of Australian defence policy since WW2. Because Australia is an island nation, that principle has been applied especially to the Royal Australian Air Force. Simply put, control events in the vast maritime (air and
China’s airlines are slowing, not stalling China’s slowing economy and its potential impact on airlines in the Asia Pacific region has been grabbing headlines but the heads of the region’s major carriers have a message for the prophets of doom suggesting Beijing’s growth bubble has burst. It is, quite simply: Relax. Like everyone else, China’s