This issue of our Major Airline Directory covers the first 12 month period of airline deregulation in Australia and as we forecast last year Australia has experienced exactly the same problems as has gone before in North America. Compass Airlines were the first of the new deregulated airlines and to date they have been the
10 Years Ago The first production British Aerospace Jetstream 31 which first flew on March 18, is currently undergoing 75 hours of flight testing with certification planned for this month. It will be refurbished in a 12 seat Executive Shuttle layout and used as a BAe demonstrator. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation
Bae/Ansett Flying College up and Running The airline pilot training business is very much a cyclical one as the demand for pilots constantly changes. One year there can be what is seen to be a desperate shortage yet only two or three years later there can be a excess of qualified pilots available who will
Reaction to Australian Aviation Proposals Air New Zealand sees Australian Government proposals to change that country’s aviation policy as a welcome sign that restraints on the airline’s ability to include Australian stopovers on routes to and from Asia may at last be coming to an end. Air New Zealand’s chief executive, Jim McCrea, said that
Commercial Support Programme on Track The Defence Commercial Support Programme (CSP), whereby many support functions within the Australian Defence Force would be contracted out to private industry was “very much on track”, the Minister for Defence Science and Personnel, Mr Gordon Bilney said recently. He said it was quite clear that hundreds of millions of
Dornier 328 A definite growth area in recent years is the heavily contested market for high speed turboprop commuter airliners. The large number of aircraft vying for orders, such as the Dash 8, EMB-120, J31 and J41 Jetstreams and Saab 340B ensures market share is bitterly fought for and means any new entrants are going