https://worldofaviation.com The world's leading aviation news website Wed, 07 Jun 2023 06:57:14 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.2 https://worldofaviation.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/cropped-Favicon-150x150.png https://worldofaviation.com 32 32 https://worldofaviation.com/2020/02/emirates-flight-training-academy-aims-to-fill-the-pilot-gap/ https://worldofaviation.com/2020/02/emirates-flight-training-academy-aims-to-fill-the-pilot-gap/#comments Wed, 19 Feb 2020 06:32:35 +0000 https://thewofa.com/?p=80747 The global airline industry will need around 804,000 new civil aviation pilots in commercial and business aviation and for civil helicopters over the next 20 years.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2020/02/emirates-flight-training-academy-aims-to-fill-the-pilot-gap/feed/ 1 https://worldofaviation.com/2020/02/former-nok-air-ceo-launches-tell-all-autobiography-including-a-chapter-on-lion-air/ Thu, 13 Feb 2020 03:43:38 +0000 https://thewofa.com/?p=80705 As China begins to criticize international travel and tourism action in response to the coronavirus outbreak, one airline founder advises airlines to consider their long-term goals in China and not completely cut all flights to the country.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2019/10/from-the-archives-when-qantas-flew-perth-to-london-in-the-longest-hop/ Sat, 19 Oct 2019 22:41:15 +0000 https://thewofa.com?p=78734 To mark the first of three Project Sunrise nonstop research flights from New York to Sydney, this story from the Australian Aviation archives comes from May 2018, when Gerard Frawley wrote about the experience of being on Qantas's inaugural Perth-London Heathrow nonstop service.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2019/10/from-the-archives-one-boeing-787-delivery-down-820-to-go/ https://worldofaviation.com/2019/10/from-the-archives-one-boeing-787-delivery-down-820-to-go/#comments Sat, 05 Oct 2019 22:00:59 +0000 https://thewofa.com?p=78404 This story from the Australian Aviation archives is from November 2011 when Geoffrey Thomas wrote about the first Boeing 787 delivery to All Nippon Airways.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2019/10/from-the-archives-one-boeing-787-delivery-down-820-to-go/feed/ 1 https://worldofaviation.com/2019/09/fire-and-ice-as-low-cost-carriers-battle-in-the-asia-pacific/ https://worldofaviation.com/2019/09/fire-and-ice-as-low-cost-carriers-battle-in-the-asia-pacific/#comments Fri, 27 Sep 2019 23:00:29 +0000 https://thewofa.com?p=78022 This story by Tom Ballantyne on the operating environment for low-cost carriers in Asia first appeared in the August 2019 edition of Australian Aviation.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2019/09/fire-and-ice-as-low-cost-carriers-battle-in-the-asia-pacific/feed/ 1 https://worldofaviation.com/2019/09/from-the-archives-the-ansett-collapse/ https://worldofaviation.com/2019/09/from-the-archives-the-ansett-collapse/#comments Sat, 14 Sep 2019 01:02:20 +0000 https://thewofa.com?p=77549 This story from the Australian Aviation archives is from September 2011, when Geoffrey Thomas wrote about the collapse of Ansett Australia.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2019/09/from-the-archives-the-ansett-collapse/feed/ 3 https://worldofaviation.com/2019/08/from-the-archives-delivery-of-a-cathay-pacific-boeing-777-300er/ Sat, 24 Aug 2019 23:00:55 +0000 https://thewofa.com?p=76643 This story from the Australian Aviation archives is from August 2008, when Andrew McLaughlin wrote about the delivery of a Cathay Pacific Boeing 777-300ER.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2019/08/aviation-australia/ Tue, 06 Aug 2019 00:46:48 +0000 https://thewofa.com?p=75719 In fewer than decades, Aviation Australia has established itself as the pre-eminent aviation engineering training organisation in the southern hemisphere with campuses in Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne and Perth.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2019/07/air-new-zealand-looking-long-haul-with-latest-boeing-787-order/ https://worldofaviation.com/2019/07/air-new-zealand-looking-long-haul-with-latest-boeing-787-order/#comments Fri, 26 Jul 2019 23:00:28 +0000 https://thewofa.com?p=75587 This story by Denise McNabb from the July 2019 edition of Australian Aviation looks at the long-haul ambitions of Air New Zealand with the Boeing 787.]]> https://worldofaviation.com/2019/07/air-new-zealand-looking-long-haul-with-latest-boeing-787-order/feed/ 4 https://worldofaviation.com/2019/07/remembering-the-apollo-11-moon-landing-50-years-on/ Fri, 19 Jul 2019 05:41:49 +0000 https://thewofa.com?p=75396 To mark the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, Denise McNabb writes about listening to that historic moment in a New Zealand school classroom .]]>