Virgin Australia, Qantas and Hawaiian Airlines are to begin offering “rescue fares” for passengers stranded by the collapse of Air Australia. An estimated 4000 passengers are stuck in Thailand, Bali and Hawaii after the budget carrier was unable to pay for fuel and abruptly ceased flying and went into voluntary administration. Virgin said it would
Pratt & Whitney has begun icing testing its PurePower PW1524G engine for the Bombardier C-Series aircraft. The overall PW1523G test program has run more than 1200 hours to date, including over 200 flight hours on a 747 test aircraft. P&W says its next generation PurePower engines will offer double digit improvements in fuel efficiency while
The travel plans of hundreds of passengers have been thrown into disarray with the financial collapse of Air Australia, with the company’s director calling in John Park and Mark Korda of KordaMentha as Voluntary Administrators in the early hours of this morning. “It currently appears that there are no funds available to meet operational expenses
Airbus parent EADS and Singapore based ST Aerospace have signed a memorandum of understanding to develop the Airbus A330 passenger-to-freighter (P2F) conversion program. EADS is targeting a 2016 entry into service for the A330-300P2F with the -200P2F coming a year later. The company estimates demand for up to 900 converted freighters over the next 20
Japan Airlines has placed a firm order for 10 Boeing 787-9s while converting 10 existing orders for 787-8s to the larger -9 version. The deal, announced today, brings JAL’s total Dreamliner order to 45 aircraft, including 25 -8s and 20 -9s. JAL said the 787-9s would be able to seat about 50 more passengers than
Start up charter airline JetGo Australia will lease an Embraer ERJ-135 for use in fly-in fly-out (FIFO) services targeting the natural resource and mining sectors, Embraer has announced. Delivery of the 37-seat jet is scheduled for the end of February. JetGo said it would use the jet for charter services from eastern seaboard cities to
