Year: 2023

The Flying Kangaroo has also revealed the program will be run in partnership with Aviation Australia and aims to train up to 300 people each year from 2025,

When Momentum Media bought Australian Aviation three and a half years ago, we didn’t just get the right to use the logo. We got the lot. Boxes and boxes of print magazines going back 40 years, an endless stack of prints and access to a mysterious Google Drive that contained (we think) more than 1,000

The flight paths, which will be subject to a formal planning and consultation period later this year, have been designed for WSI’s single initial runway. They include reciprocal runway operations (RRO), where planes arrive and depart from the same direction, to minimise noise at night when traffic permits.

The airport expects domestic figures to reach similar levels to last year – around 84 per cent of pre-COVID levels – and international passengers to climb 53 per cent over the 2022 winter holidays, driven in no small part by the New Zealand market.

The low-cost carrier will fly three times per week between Cairns and Newcastle using Airbus A320 aircraft, translating to around 4,400 seats on the route per month until 28 October. The first flight, JQ894, touched down in Newcastle at 3:08pm on Saturday on board VH-VQF.

The first flight, NZ169, landed at Sunshine Coast Airport at 11am on Sunday on board the Airbus A320neo ZK-NHE. Air New Zealand will operate flights three times per week between Auckland and the Sunshine Coast until 15 October, with an estimated 16,000 seats available over the season.