Year: 2023

The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will issue grants across the supply chain to support domestic production of SAF from agricultural feedstocks, with applications to open from mid-July.

Dovetail, which is 20 per cent owned by Rex, will use HTWO’s fuel cells for initial testing in Australia as a preliminary step to full-scale trials, with an eye to conducting a first flight next year. The HTWO system will be integrated with Dovetail’s Iron Bird, which was successfully tested last year.

Chinese passengers have recovered to 54 per cent of pre-pandemic levels in May, compared to only 22 per cent at the start of the year. Sydney’s international terminal saw 1,076,000 passengers over the month, while domestic traffic grew 5.5 per cent year-on-year to 1,934,000, or 87.3 per cent of May 2019.

The Flying Kangaroo had announced its intention to take delivery of the extra narrowbodies in February but rubber-stamped the decision with Airbus at the Paris Air Show.

The airline blamed a global shortage of pilots and engineers, along with supply chain shocks post-pandemic that have forced it to make schedule reductions.

The planemaker’s annual Commercial Market Outlook (CMO), released ahead of the 2023 Paris Airshow, has forecast US$8 trillion in demand for new commercial jets by 2042. The Asia-Pacific market is expected to account for around 40 per cent of this demand, with China alone representing half of that amount.