Year: 2018

The story that United Airlines denied boarding to a passenger’s “emotional support peacock” has caused something of a social media flap. The woman was intending to fly on a United Airlines flight from Newark Airport, New Jersey and offered to pay for a second seat for the bird, according to the story which was first

The de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver floatplane that fatally crashed on New Year’s Eve was not on the operator’s standard flightpath before it impacted Jerusalem Bay just outside Sydney, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says. The findings are in the transport safety investigator’s preliminary report into the accident, which resulted in the death of

Ansett Aviation Training plans to offer pilot training at a new facility at Brisbane Airport featuring an ATR 72-600 full flight simulator. On January 28 2018, the Queensland government said Ansett Aviation Training had chosen Brisbane Airport as the base for its new training centre which will have three flight simulators. In addition to the

The RAAF’s fourth and fifth Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning IIs have made their first flights. Photographer Caulun Belcher captured these images of A35-004 – above – and A35-005 – below – during their first flights, from Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas on December 14 and January 23, respectively. After test and acceptance

Qantas plans to offer 10 flights a week between Brisbane and Los Angeles from September 1 as its fleet of Boeing 787-9s joins the 747-400s currently operating the route. Under the new schedule, the 787-9 will replace the 747-400 on the daily QF15/16 Brisbane-Los Angeles service. The aircraft will then operate a Los Angeles-New York

HNA Group carrier and Virgin Australia alliance partner Tianjin Airlines has commenced services to a second Australian destination with the start of flights to Sydney. Flight GS7939, operated by Airbus A330-200 B-8959, landed at Sydney Airport just after 0700 local time on Tuesday, some 11 and a half hours after departing from Zhengzhou. The aircraft