Cessna has launched the Citation M2, a new light jet to sit between the Citation Mustang and Citation CJ series in its extensive business jet line-up. In effect a replacement for the out of production CJ1+, on which it is based, the M2 seats six in the main cabin, features a Garmin Prodigy G3000 glass
Adelaide Airport Ltd has promoted its chief financial officer Mark Young to managing director, replacing Phil Baker, 63, who led the company from its successful acquisition from the Commonwealth Government in 1998. Young, who had previous finance executive experience with food company San Remo and engineering contractor Macmahon Holdings, joined AAL in 2001. Chairman David
QantasLink will increase its services in regional Queensland, announcing plans to base two newly acquired Boeing 717s in Brisbane from early 2012, and adding Townsville-Moranbah services to its network. Qantas’s regional arm has yet to annouce on what services the 115-seat 717s will operate in Queensland, but the new Townsville to Moranbah service will operate
The federal parliament’s Public Works Committee (PWC) is conducting inquiries into the redevelopment of HMAS Albatross in NSW, and RAAF East Sale in Victoria. Both bases are due to receive extensive redevelopments to support the introduction and service of new capabilities in the next decade. Albatross will see new training helicopters based there as part
Boeing has celebrated the delivery of the first customer 787 Dreamliner to Japan’s ANA with a ceremony at its Everett, Washington plant. ANA’s 787-8 JA801A – which was contractually handed over a day earlier – is the first of 821 787s on order to be delivered, and is due to depart Everett on its delivery
Jetstar is to add a twice weekly Sydney-Queenstown service to its network from December 23, plus increace the frequency of its existing Melbourne-Queenstown flights from two to three times weekly. Flight JQ223 will depart Sydney for Queenstown on Mondays and Fridays at 0950, while the return JQ224 flight will depart Queenstown for Sydney also at
