Air New Zealand, Fiji Airways and Virgin Australia have cancelled flights to Tonga due to the eruption of the Hunga Ha’apai volcano. The volcanic activity in the Pacific Ocean had caused a plume of smoke at about 20,000 feet, according to the Wellington Volcanic Ash Advisory Centre. The advisory, issued on Tuesday morning Australian time,
Crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501’s flight data recorder (FDR) has been brought to the surface and is on its way to Jakarta for analysis. Search and rescue (SAR) divers from Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) retrieved one of the two aircraft’s flight recorders on Monday. BASARNAS said the flight data recorder was found
Garuda Indonesia will end direct flights from Brisbane to Denpasar at the end of January as part of a network restructure. The Indonesia flag carrier confirmed it would withdraw from the route, which it operates five times a week with Boeing 737-800 aircraft, on Monday. “It is with regret that we announce the closure of
Low-cost carrier Scoot has expanded its Australian network through a partnership with Virgin Australia. The Singapore Airlines-owned Scoot said on Monday passengers on its services to Australia – Scoot currently serves the Gold Coast, Perth, Sydney and, from November, Melbourne, from its Singapore hub – were now able to buy tickets that included connections on Virgin-operated
Australia’s domestic carriers continue to exhibit caution on capacity growth amid soft consumer demand and the downturn in mining-related activity, latest figures show. The International Air Transport Association’s (IATA) monthly traffic figures show local airlines grew capacity by 1.7 per cent in the 11 months to November, as measured by available seat kilometres (ASK). Moreover, in
Regional Express (Rex) says administrators are standing in the way of it starting stopgap flights to communities in Cape York affected by the sudden shut down of North Queensland-based Skytrans. Rex said on Friday it had sought to use a Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) mechanism to start stopgap flights with the emergency “charter substitution arrangement” within a
