Australia’s local airlines cut the number of domestic seats for a fifth straight month in November as capacity discipline remains the order of the day amid soft passenger numbers and sluggish demand for air travel, new figures show. A Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) report says the number of available seats for
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) Air Task Group (ATG) has clocked up 3,500 hours of combat operations during which it has destroyed 61 targets after 100 days of playing its part in the international effort to disrupt and degrade the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). The ATG has been conducting regular
Perth Airport’s latest 20 year masterplan, which includes plans for a long-awaited parallel runway and significant terminal expansion and consolidation, has been granted federal government approval by Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss. “The masterplan I have approved outlines its aim of lifting gross regional product to an exceptional $7.04 billion by 2034, which will
Airservices is putting trainee air traffic controllers through flight simulator sessions to give them a better understanding of a pilot’s perspective at 30,000ft. The flightdeck orientation and familiarisation course in a Boeing 737 simulator is run by Flight Experience in Melbourne, with current pilots from a number of Australian airlines used as instructors. The course
The second of only two Boeing 737-700s now in the Virgin Australia fleet, VH-VBZ, has been repainted. The aircraft, first delivered to Virgin Blue in 2005 and named Maliblue, emerged from the Flying Colours paintshop at Townsville Airport on Friday evening wearings its new Virgin Australia colours and bearing the new name Cronulla Beach. VBZ
It’s been four years in the making but the Royal Flying Doctor Service, the South Australian Government and Adelaide Airport Ltd have reached agreement on a new $13 million aeromedical base at the airport. The project, on which preliminary work has just started to prepare the site, will bring together all South Australia’s aeromedical services
