Compass Failure Highlights Need for New Entrants to Formulate a Viable Business Plan Just 385 days after it was born, Compass Airlines died. A victim of a business plan that was from the start driven largely by how big the airline wanted to be, rather than by how profitable. In the end, after losing money

Broker Urges Quick Qantas Sale: Melbourne broker ANZ McCaughan is urging the float of much of Qantas as early as possible, even December this year. The company says that because of the poor state of the Australian economy and the world aviation industry (the airlines particularly), now is the best time to attract investors because

Malibu Crashes Still a Mystery: The cause of eight inflight breakups by Piper Malibu single-engined pressurised light aircraft has still not been positively identified despite extensive testing in the suspected area, the autopilot. It was thought that electronic interference may have caused the Malibu’s King KFC-150 autopilot to malfunction, but a series of high intensity

Bae Australia Orion Contract: British Aerospace Australia has won a $2m contract with Lockheed to supply electronics equipment for ten P-3C Orions for South Korea. The contract covers various items ranging from cockpit lighting to crew inter communications equipment and will keep BAe’s Salisbury (Adelaide) facility busy for two years. BAe Australia has been the