The Australian Maritime Safety Authority – AMSA – which is now coordinating search efforts for the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 in the southern Indian Ocean, said on Tuesday it is now focused on an area 1,500nm southwest of Perth “based on information made available to AMSA on Monday”. “AMSA has defined a possible search area
The Defence Material Organisation has signed a contract extension with Boeing Defence Australia for the support of the RAAF’s E-7A Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning & Control (AEW&C) fleet. The $901 millionsustainment contract covers engineering and maintenance support, repairs, spare parts, and aircrew and maintenance training through until 2019, with the potential for annual contract extensions thereafter
Melbourne Airport’s new air traffic control tower was officially opened by Deputy Prime Minister and Infrastructure Minister Warren Truss and Airservices chairman Angus Houston on Friday. The 75 metre tall tower was built at a cost of $19 million tower. Operational since November, it is the fourth new Airservices tower to feature INTAS – Integrated Tower
Qantas has issued a detailed rebuttal of claims made about it at a Senate enquiry hearing on Friday, while CASA too has rejected claims that it is too close to Qantas and that it has failed in its regulatory oversight of Qantas’s offshore maintenance. The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee’s inquiry
John Holland Aviation Services (JHAS) looks set to be shut down, with the company announcing on Friday that it is “winding back” operations at its Melbourne Tullamarine heavy maintenance base due to “current market conditions”. John Holland Group managing sirector, Glenn Palin, said in a statement that: “After owning JHAS for seven years, we are
The Queensland government has invited carriers from across Australia to attend industry briefings on regulated air routes in the state. The briefings will be held in Brisbane on March 17 and Townsville on March 19. Following a review of government-contracted long-distance passenger services in regional Queensland, the state government announced in February that three routes
