Don’t forget that contributory stories for ‘On the Airbands’ are welcome from pilots, air traffic controllers, airline hostesses, flight stewards, passengers, in fact anyone who has an interesting anecdote to offer. We’re certainly not discriminatory here at Australian Aviation! I recently received a letter from the United States, written by a regular reader who happens

Qantas Denied Traffic Rights From NZ to the USA Wellington negotiators seem to have closed the door tightly on a Qantas request to fly North American services through New Zealand. The Qantas request was a key demand in talks between the two governments in February. The Australians hoped to persuade the New Zealand Government that

Defence White Paper Gains Widespread Acceptance Vital ingredients in Australia’s new Defence strategy spelt out recently by the Defence Minister, Mr Kim Beazley in the Federal Government’s first Defence White Paper for eleven years, are the air assets. Instead of the Strategy of Denial within a 1000 nautical miles sea-air gap around our continent, the