Airservices Australia is opening air traffic control towers in the Western Australian northwest centres of Broome and Karratha this week to cope with the significant growth in aircraft movements to the two key regional airports. From November 18 Airservices controllers will start providing ATC services from Karratha’s existing but refurbished air traffic control tower (it
Jetstar will become the first airline to operate direct flights between Hobart and the Gold Coast when it commences a daily A320 service between the two cities on December 22. The new flights will provide 126,000 seats a year between the Tasmanian capital and Jetstar’s growing Gold Coast hub. Earlier in December Jetstar is due
Airbus CEO Tomas Enders has bailed out of the troubled A400M, literally! Enders, a champion skydiver, was one of 10 parachutists along with A400M program manager, Bruno Delannoy, who jumped out of the third A400M development aircraft near Seville in Spain as part of the aircraft’s development program. “It was an enormous pleasure for me
Perth based Quickstep Holdings has announced its successfully achieved a key milestone in its production preparations for the JSF program in mid October, passing the ‘Toll Gate’ review set by JSF partner company Northrop Grumman. The Toll Gate measured Quickstep’s manufacturing readiness for Group 1 composite parts at its Coogee facility in WA, and was
Piper Aircraft has appointed Simon Caldecott to the position of vice president of operations. Caldecott will be responsible for manufacturing operations, manufacturing engineering, sustaining engineering and supply chain, and will report direct to company CEO, Geoffrey Berger.
Brisbane Airport broke its monthly passenger total in October with 1.43 million passengers passing through its domestic terminal, beating the previous total by 3.2 per cent. The airport says its year-on-year domestic passenger increase is at 6.3 per cent, while the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics says the airport has achieved six per
