Qantas has announced further maintenance staff job losses as its Avalon base, a reduction in line maintenance positions at Sydney, and cuts at Qantas Defence Services with the loss of RAAF C-130H maintenance work, although 120 positions are also being created in Brisbane. With the winding up of a program to refurbish nine 747-400s with
The RAAF’s sixth C-17 Globemaster airlifter touched down at its new home base of RAAF Amberley on November 6 at the end of its delivery flight from the US. C-17 A41-211 was formally handed over to the RAAF in a ceremony at Boeing’s Long Beach plant on November 1, and it joins five other C-17s
Chief of Air Force Air Marshal Geoff Brown has observed production of the centre fuselage for the first RAAF F-35A Joint Strike Fighter during a visit to Northrop Grumman’s Palmdale, California facility last week. AIRMSHL Brown toured Northrop Grumman’s Integrated Assembly Line, which produces F-35 centre fuselage sections, and where the first inlet ducts for
Air New Zealand has become the first international airline to offer self-service check in kiosks at Sydney Airport. Fifteen of the kiosks have been commissioned allowing passengers to scan their passport and be issued a boarding pass. Passengers with luggage will then proceed to a bag drop desk. According to Air New Zealand the kiosks
Air navigation services provider Airways New Zealand has become the first ANSP in the world to receive ICAO endorsement as a designer of instrument procedures for Performance-Based Navigation (PBN). “We’ve done many different types of PBN flight procedures for varying environmental and traffic conditions, weather conditions and mixed fleet capabilities. We’re proud to have this
Strategic partners Etihad and Virgin Australia have increased the baggage allowance for economy class passengers to 30kg. The new allowances are applicable on flights between Australia, Abu Dhabi and other destinations where the airlines partner excluding North America. Virgin Australia’s chief customer officer, Mark Hassell, said: “The extra seven kilograms is a significant increase for our economy
