Virgin Blue has been renamed as Virgin Australia, with the first two aircraft painted in the airline’s new livery, a Boeing 737-800 and a Airbus A330-200, touching down at Sydney Airport just after 9am this morning. From today Virgin Blue will operate domestically in Australia as Virgin Australia, while CEO John Borghetti also confirmed that
Defence has finally signed a $86.6 million, six year Interim Basic Flying Training (IBFT) contract with BAE Systems to continue to provide basic pilot training at Tamworth from January next year. “Under the contract, BAE Systems will continue to provide basic flying training at Tamworth using the CT-4B Airtrainer aircraft, upgraded to meet contemporary crashworthiness
Brisbane based support firm Ferra Engineering has secured a five year build-to-order contract from Boeing to manufacture components for the company’s line of 737, 747, 757, 767 and 777 series aircraft. Under the agreement, Ferra will manufacture a total of 618 unique machined components used by Boeing aircraft, after the engineering company was originally identified
Airbus has received its first Messier-Dowty manufactured A350 XWB (A350-900) main landing gear set at its test facility in Filton, UK. Airbus will install both the main landing gear and recently delivered nose landing gear sets in a landing gear systems test-rig at Filton, paving the way for integration testing planned towards the end of
Virgin Blue has announced it is again increasing its fares and international fuel surcharges, blaming the continued rise in fuel prices, with jet fuel now sitting at US$140 per barrel. “The changes we’re announcing today will only go some way towards recovering our fuel costs and are necessary in this environment,” VB CEO and managing
Virgin Blue and Delta are expanding their codeshare agreement, covering new destinations in the US and Australia and New Zealand. The expanded arrangement will see V Australia passengers able to connect from Los Angeles on Delta to four new destinations in the United States – San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Detroit, while Delta will
