Year: 2018

Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) has unveiled its new cabin products on board its Boeing 787-10 fleet after the first of the type arrived at Changi Airport on Wednesday morning following its marathon delivery flight from North Charleston, South Carolina via Osaka Kansai. Bright skies and sunny conditions greeted the 787-10 9V-SCA as it touched down a

Air New Zealand will join a select number of airlines in the 7,000 club from November 30 2018 when it commences nonstop flights between Auckland and Chicago O’Hare International Airport. The new route, announced on Wednesday, will be served three times weekly with Boeing 787-9s that feature Air New Zealand’s premium heavy configuration. At 7,112nm,

Project Sunrise, Qantas’s ambitious plan to introduce a “super long-haul” aircraft into service from 2022 capable of flying nonstop from the east coast of Australia to London and New York, could provide an opportunity for new thinking in passenger amenity, the airline says. Among the ideas being considered for the new aircraft type, either the

Fiji Airways chief executive Andre Viljoen says the rising cost of fuel will be one of the airline’s major challenges for 2018 after posting a fourth straight year of record profit in calendar 2017. The airline group, which covers Fiji Airways, Fiji Link and other subsidiaries, reported profit before tax of FJ$95.8 million (A$61.3 million)

An Army CH-47F Chinook heavy lift helicopter has been embarked aboard the Navy’s landing ship HMAS Choules for the first time. The recently completed ‘first of class flight trials’ aboard the Choules, held in the Coral Sea off the coast Queensland, were to define ‘Ship Helicopter Operating Limits’ so that the CH-47F can operate from

Air New Zealand is calling for tougher penalties for the misuse of unmanned aerial vehicles, or drones, after one of its flights was involved in a near miss while approaching Auckland Airport for landing. Flight NZ92 from Tokyo Haneda, operated by Boeing 777-200ER ZK-OKF, was about five metres from a drone during its descent into