Breaking the barriers for women in aviation International Women’s Day was marked once again this year by female aviators banding together on social media and at airports around the world. A variety of functions were held and scholarships announced and tales of pilots of bygone days recounted. And yet for the many positive events, there

Will Singapore Airlines up its stake in Virgin Australia? The coverage of the potential sale of Air New Zealand’s stake in Virgin Australia has been disappointing at best and naïve and possibly irresponsible at worst. Banner headlines such as “Virgin Australia’s credibility takes a dive” are inaccurate and could lead the general public to stop

Is the timing of Australia’s F-35 acquisition falling into place? About this time 10 years ago then Defence Minister Dr Brendan Nelson first began giving serious consideration to a potential air combat capability gap between the scheduled retirement of the RAAF’s F-111s in 2010 and the planned arrival of the first F-35s in 2012. Those

Air NZ looking to sell Virgin Australia stake Rocket says: This is nothing like Qantas two years ago. Qantas were profitable before and after that. Virgin under the current leadership has not been profitable at any point. Question that has to be asked is if not for the $350m capital raising, partial sale of Velocity