Network Aviation’s pace-setting role in the Western Australia charter market. As vaunted as the Virgin Group’s acquisition was of Skywest earlier this year, Qantas pre-dated the deal by Qantas more than two years. Although big news in the Western Australian mining community, but with much less fanfare, Qantas announced in December 2010 it was purchasing
The ‘no blame’ safety culture has greater value than crash headlines The Asiana Boeing 777 had hardly come to rest at San Francisco than the armchair experts emerged with all of their wonderful conjured theories. As the investigators were still on their way to the accident scene, everything from faulty navigation systems to racial stereotypes
Celebrating the Royal Flying Doctor Service On May 17 1928, Flynn of the Inland linked a pedal radio to a DH50 Victory leased from Q.A.N.T.A.S for two shillings a mile. With that, he launched the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) with a flight from Julia Creek to Cloncurry. It is our largest and oldest aeromedical
Aircraft types on the VH register The 2013 Australian aircraft census has again shown an upward trend in the number of powered aircraft registered with CASA, as it has done most years, with the exception of 2002, since our first compilation in 1997. Larger types new to this year’s census include the Beech 100 King
Don’t forget your hashtag How do you choose an airline, or a flight? Closer to home, price, schedule and frequent flyer points will weigh highly on your decisions, but with an ever-increasing number of international airline partners wedded to Australia’s home airlines, choosing a flight from a morass of options you don’t know can be
But market dynamics and constraints represent tall hurdles Flamboyant budget airline chief Tony Fernandes isn’t one to throw in the towel. The Malaysian entrepreneur showed that on the sporting front, sticking firmly by has big cash investment in English soccer side Queens Park Rangers despite their dismal performance and relegation to the second tier of