QUEENSLAND, Australia — Sexpo late Tuesday said it plans on going public by November and has eyes on new markets, including New Zealand, Europe and the U.S.
The plan, to be revealed at the Brisbane Sexpo in Southbank, Australia, on Thursday, will spell out what the company will do in the next six months and detail [...]
Air New Zealand Ltd said charter flights between Japan and Auckland during the summer were popular, with three charters in January sold out and the fourth on December 28 achieving an 80 percent load factor.
Three services using 767-300 aircraft, operated from Nagoya with the fourth from Okinawa, resulted in almost 900 additional Japanese tourists visiting [...]
PARIS (Reuters) – International search teams will be sent to the Atlantic later this month to try to find wreckage from an Air France airliner that crashed into the sea last year killing all 228 people aboard, French officials said on Friday.
Three specialised search vessels, equipped to survey the rugged sea bed at depths of [...]
Korean Air Lines Co., South Korea’s largest airline, said Friday it will increase joint operations with Garuda Indonesia, an Indonesian airliner, on the Incheon-Jakarta route starting next week.
Korean Air, which has been offering seven trips a week between South Korea’s main gateway and the Indonesian capital on a code-sharing basis with the Indonesian carrier, will [...]
In a potentially hopeful sign for Iraq’s battered economy, foreign airlines are increasing service to the country as its national airline is rebuilding after two decades of war, sanctions and neglect.
Flying in Iraq remains difficult due to continuing security concerns and because airports and air-traffic control systems are just starting to be modernized.
Iraqi Airways [...]
Since I got an iPod Touch in October, I’ve been impressed with the gaming credentials of Apple’s touch-screened machine.
I was initially sceptical about gaming on the Touch, believing it would never measure up to the Nintendo DS and PlayStation Portable, but after spending countless hours tapping, sliding and poking, I declare that the iPod Touch [...]
Indonesia, over the last few years or so, has been slowly building its military hardware for their Navy, Air Force and Army. Photos included here show some of their recent acquisitions. Should we be worried? Indonesia is, currently, on friendly terms with Australia, however, this has not always been the case, and attitudes and relations [...]
When you sell to airlines in under-developed countries, you sometimes come across some pretty unusual situations. Air Zimbabwe, the overseas launch customer for the Xian Aircraft MA60, has damaged one of its Chinese-built aircraft after it hit a warthog.
That’s right. A warthog. And pigs can’t fly.
The aircraft, UM-239, hit the animal at night (4 November) [...]
July 25, 2008 05:50pm
QANTAS passengers have described how they thought their plane would disintegrate after a “massive” hole appeared mid-flight.
The plane made an emergency landing in Manila about 1:20pm after the cabin depressurised due to the hole in the fuselage.
Sources report the hole, near the cargo door, was ‘’several meters wide” and caused what passengers [...]
This year, why not send Christmas cards that are a bit different from everyone else’s? Our cards are humorous, show everyone’s favourite Australian animals, the kangaroo and the koala, and for every card sold we will make a donation to Save The Children. They are available in sets of 10 cards.
Koala – ‘Too much Christmas [...]
