The union representing Qantas’s long-haul pilots have reached an in-principle agreement with the airline that includes an 18-month pay freeze and provisions for any potential Boeing 787-9 order. The long-haul enterprise agreement suggests Qantas is a step closer to exercising its options and purchase rights for the Dreamliner. While the new deal did not significantly change the
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has unveiled an Airbus A380 featuring the Singapore flag in a stylised design on the fuselage. The special livery, which will be on two of SIA’s A380s until the end of 2015, has been created to commemorate Singapore’s 50th birthday and features a 10m-tall and 47m-long design on both sides of the fuselage
Air Niugini will send its engineering cadets to Cairns for two years of on-the-job training as part of a new partnership with Hawker Pacific and Aviation Australia. The new initiative, due to be launched on Friday, has Air Niugini engineering cadets working out of Hawker Pacific’s maintenance facility at Cairns Airport and receiving training from
Australia’s domestic flights were a touch fuller in March as passenger numbers grew amid a decrease in capacity. Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) showed there were 4.83 million domestic travellers on regular public transport flights in March, up 0.8 per cent from the prior corresponding period. Meanwhile, local carriers
Fiji Airways plans to boost frequencies to Australia and New Zealand after taking delivery a fifth Boeing 737 this week. The leased 737, named Island of Ovalau and with registration DQ-FJN, landed at Nadi on Wednesday from the Netherlands, Fiji Airways said in a statement. Fiji Airways chairman Nalin Patel said the arrival of the
Regional Express’ (Rex) is installing new cockpit flight displays across its Saab 340 fleet from Thomas Global Systems. In a sign Rex intends to maintain its 34-seat Saab 340s for at least the next decade, the airline is rolling out the LCD TFD-8601 avionics display units as a replacement for the current Rockwell Collins EFD-86
