Boeing and All Nippon Airways have begun service ready operational validation (SROV) with the 787 Dreamliner in Japan, as the airline prepares to take delivery of its first aircraft later this year. Arriving at Tokyo’s Haneda Airport after a non-stop flight from Seattle yesterday morning, 787 flight test aircraft ZA002 will participate in the week
Tiger Airways Australia has commenced an “extensive series of meetings” between its management team, lead by Tiger Airways Holdings CEO Tony Davis, and CASA, as it works to resolve the serious safety concerns which led to CASA grounding the airline on July 1. “Our goal is to resume our services as quickly as possible whilst
EADS subsidiary Eurocopter Holding has announced the acquisition of 98.32 per cent of Candian firm Vector Aerospace Corporation, following a C$625 million takeover bid launched in March this year. Eurocopter, which had planned to obtain 100 per cent of Vector under a compulsory acquisition, bought a total of 77, 627, 98 common shares at an
Garuda Indonesia has signed a firm order for four Airbus A330-300s, while it has converted three previously placed A330-200 orders into -300 versions. Garuda currently operates a leased fleet of seven A330-200s and six A330-300s.
Tiger Airways’s grounding in Australia will cost around A$1.5 million a week, parent Tiger Airways Holdings notified the Singaporean stock exchange on Sunday. The grounding is currently in effect through until Saturday July 9, stranding about 35,000 passenger booked to fly on Tiger during that time. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) may apply to
The ALAEA has cancelled planned Qantas industrial action this week and lifted its overtime ban following CASA’s grounding of Tiger Airways late on Friday evening. “We fully intended to kick that campaign off on Monday in earnest but the Tiger woes have thrown a spanner into our works,” federal secretary Steve Purvinas wrote on the
