For Qantas, the arrival of its first superjumbo Airbus A380 in November 2008 marked a changing of the guard, not only in terms of fleet modernisation. A new chief executive was about to take the helm and hopes were high a new era in air travel was beginning. Did the world’s largest commercial jet live

Lose Your Class 1 Medical, Lose Your Job A Class 1 medical certificate is a ‘must have’ for commercial aviators. Most of us understand that the maintenance of overall health and wellbeing takes work. When it comes to a commercial flying career, that translates to sustained effort and long-term commitment to stay on top of

The building of Butterworth Australia’s strategic commitment to South-East Asia The last two On Target columns traced the decade-long evolution of an expanding Australian commitment to South-East Asia commencing with the outbreak of the Malayan Emergency in 1948, the signing of the ‘Manila Pact’ which established the South-East Asia Treaty Organisation (SEATO) in September 1954,

Well played Is there a pilot shortage? It’s a question that seems to confront the aviation industry with semi-regularity every decade or so. And in the past while there have been cyclical pressures on pilot numbers, invariably the airline industry, at least in Australia and New Zealand, could rely upon the next economic downturn, with