Qantas will resume limited Airbus A380 operations to Singapore and London from November 27 after what it calls an “intensive” inspection program for the aircraft’s Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines. “Together with the engine and aircraft manufacturers and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), Qantas is now satisfied that it can begin reintroducing A380s to its
Regional Express has appointed aviation safety consultant Ron Bartsch as an independent director. Bartsch has held a range of operational, safety and regulatory roles in the aviation industry, including head of safety and regulatory compliance for Qantas and manager of the CASA Sydney Airline Transport Field Office. The the well known author of a textbook
Hawaiian Airlines will increase its Sydney-Honolulu service to daily during the peak April 6 to August 1 travel period next year, the airline has announced. The airline currently operates on the route four times a week, and will also revert to a five times weekly schedule from August 2 2011. All flights will be operated
The ATSB (Australian Transport Safety Bureau)’s final report from its investigation of the explosion of an oxygen bottle on a Qantas Boeing 747-400 in 2008 has highlighted the improbability of such an event occurring again. Despite the bottle never being recovered, “the ATSB’s investigation has proven successful in highlighting the improbability of the failure event,
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a US$3.5 billion contract for the fourth Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP 4) batch of 31 F-35 JSF aircraft. Under the contract, the company will manufacture 10 F-35As for the USAF, 16 F-35Bs for the US Marine Corps, four F-35Cs for the US Navy and, despite that country recently changing
Virgin Blue was Australia’s most on time domestic airline in October, the first month in 2010 for which it has been able to claim that honour from Qantas. Virgin Blue achieved an on time departure rate of 85.8 per cent in October, up from 79.1 per cent in September, while the percentage of Qantas’s flights
