Year: 2023
Airways NZ partners with Skykraft on satellite air traffic monitoring
/The partnership will see Canberra-based Skykraft use its constellation of five satellites, which were launched with SpaceX from Florida in January this year, to collect aircraft movement data and test it against data from Airways New Zealand covering NZ, the South Pacific and Southern Oceans, and the Tasman Sea.
Read more »Domestic airfares dip but still worse than 2019, says ACCC
/Discount fares dropped by a third in real terms during January after hitting a 15-year high water mark in December 2022, with average revenue per passenger dropping 13 per cent in real terms.
Read more »Virgin flies all-female flight for International Women’s Day
/A Virgin Australia flight dispatched, operated, and handled entirely by women has touched down at Brisbane Airport as a symbolic gesture to mark International Women’s Day.
Read more »Call for liability loopholes to close following Sea World crash
Peter Carter, director of Carter Capner Law, has called for major reforms to Queensland and Commonwealth law in the wake of the tragedy, which claimed four lives and caused three serious injuries.
Read more »Sunshine Coast predicts 1.5m travellers as Air New Zealand returns
/The direct Auckland flights – the only international service from Sunshine Coast Airport – will start on 25 June and operate three times per week, on Sunday, Wednesday and Friday, until the end of October.
Read more »Surviving Gold Coast pilot ‘did not see’ second helicopter take off
/A preliminary report compiled by the ATSB also details how he “did not recall” hearing a radio call from the second helicopter outlining that he was due to take off.
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