Virgin Blue has cancelled its Newcastle to Gold Coast service, with its last regular flight between Newcastle and the Gold Coast operating today. “We’re seeing this more as a general response to the Virgin Blue strategy of moving into the business market,” Newcastle Airport CEO Paul Hughes told the ABC. “But it’s also on the
Qatar Airways has announced orders for three Boeing 777 Freighters and two 777-300ERs, in a deal worth US$1.4 billion at list prices. The airline’s 777 Freighter order, which was formally announced on April 6 at the Business & Investment in Qatar Forum in New York, was previously listed as ‘unidentified’ on Boeing’s Orders and Deliveries website
Airbus has announced the entry into service (EIS) of its re-engined A320neo (for New Engine Option) will be in October 2015, nearly 12 months earlier than planned. Speaking to media in Toulouse on April 5, Airbus’s COO – customers, John Leahy, said demand for the neo had been so strong that the company had decided
Defence Minister Stephen Smith and Defence Materiel Minister Jason Clare have announced that Australia’s bid to acquire a surplus Bay Class Landing Ship Dock (LSD), the RFA Largs Bay, from the UK has been successful. The 16,000 tonne displacement, 176m long Largs Bay will be acquired for £65 million (A$102 million), pending successful completion of
Boeing has advised operators of older 737 ‘classics’ to check them for signs of stress and fatigue, in light of the recent Southwest Airlines incident where a hole opened up in the upper fuselage of one of the airline’s 737-300s. The manufacturer said it was preparing a service bulletin for fuselage inspections, as the US
Virgin Blue has announced it has reached a “mutually satisfactory agreement” with IT company Navitaire over the airline’s booking system collapse in September last year. According to the airline the “terms of the settlement were confidential”. A computer glitch with Navitaire’s ‘NewSkies’ booking system threw the airline into turmoil for 11 days during September last
