TUS Marines land on Australian LHD Four United States Marine Corps (USMC) helicopter types have conducted their first landings onboard an Australian LHD as part of an aviation integration program to clear its rotary-wing assets for operations from the Royal Australian Navy’s new amphibious assault ships. The integration program involved HMAS Canberra while it was

Aviation arrivals and departures across the region While your columnist is on leave in the US, this issue of Traffic details our annual summary of aircraft deliveries and disposals in our region for the six-month halves of the previous financial year. Jet airliner deliveries July-December 2015 For the six months to December 2015 a total

LATAM spreads its wings over the whole of South America The 2012 takeover of Brazilian national carrier TAM by LAN, the Chilean airline with subsidiaries in Peru, Argentina, Columbia and Ecuador, was one of the most significant events in the Latin American market in decades, affecting not only travellers and airlines in that region but

The battlelines are drawn at Perth Airport For nearly a decade following the Ansett collapse, Qantas was unchallenged as the business traveller’s airline of choice across the country. While the no-frills Virgin Blue was growing its presence in the leisure market, it remained unable to compete with its larger adversary for the lucrative business market.