Category: Industry

In its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for February 2026, the air traffic management provider noted that while international flights reached their highest growth rate in the past 12 months, long-haul demand is “expected to soften” due to th…

The scientists from Monash University and RMIT examined different carbon fibre laminate designs under various hot and humid conditions, and found that moisture, rather than “specific temperature or humidity”, is the “dominant factor controlling how the…

Speaking to David Speers on ABC’s Insiders on Sunday morning, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the Iran conflict has become a major consular crisis for Australia. It comes after the RAAF last week deployed two aircraft to the Middle East in case they a…

The Australian Government has advised that Australians overseas should be prepared for serious travel disruptions in the days ahead due to the conflict. The first Dubai-to-Sydney flight, EK414, took off at around 9:20am Sydney time on Wednesday morning.

Speaking to media on Monday, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said around 115,000 Australians are currently in the Middle East region, and that the resumption of commercial flights would be the government’s preferred method for repatriating them given the s…

Speaking on the investigation into the 29 January 2025 disaster which killed all 67 people on an American Airlines CRJ700 and a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the NTSB, said “system flaws” aligned to cause the crash….

According to reporting in the South China Morning Post, two test pilots from EASA, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, have conducted verification flights of the narrowbody jet in Shanghai. Comac is looking to position the C919 as a competitor t…

Overall passenger numbers grew by 4.5 per cent year-on-year in December 2025, Airservices said in its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for the month, driven by holiday travel and major events like the Ashes as well as Lady Gaga and AC/DC con…

The planemaker has a total order book of 8,754 commercial aircraft at year-end, with 1,000 new gross orders over the course of the calendar year. A total of 793 Airbus planes were delivered to 91 airline customers around the world in 2025.