Virgin Australia’s premium economy opens up a gulf Virgin Australia transforms Boeing 777 Premium Economy with new service and cabin,” the airline’s press release says. But the actual seats aren’t the “major redesign” the airline is spruiking. Sure, Virgin Australia has spaced them out a little further – at 41in, that’s three inches more than

AirAsia is enduring a bumpy ride In the years after Malaysian entrepreneur Tony Fernandes and his business partner Kamarudin Meranun snapped up a failing local carrier, AirAsia, for the princely sum of one Malaysian Ringgit – about 35 cents in Australian money – in late 2001 it was long touted as one of the airline

Winning in the information age In 1928 the great Italian air power theorist Giulio Douhet contended that the war in the air is the “true war of movement”, in which “swift intuition, swifter decision, and still swifter execution” are needed. Douhet could have had today’s RAAF in mind. This content is available exclusively to Australian

Cathay looking at further upgauging for Australia Auckland, Australia under consideration for A350 services? Cathay Pacific chief executive Ivan Chu says using larger aircraft rather than increasing frequencies will be the best way to meet the growing demand out of Australia in the period ahead. Currently, Cathay operates threeclass Airbus A330-300s fitted with either 241