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Qantas has added 36 extra long range A321XLR to the airline group’s Airbus A320neo family of aircraft order book to be delivered from 2024.

Siemens has agreed to sell its eAircraft electric and hybrid-electric aviation propulsion business to Rolls-Royce, it was announced on June 19 2019.

Virgin Australia says it trial of a sustainable aviation fuel at Brisbane Airport has racked up one million kilometres since it began in August 2018.

Qantas says the proposed codeshare with Cathay Pacific could go ahead subject to a period of review to determine if any “hypothetical concerns” eventuated.

Airservices Australia will reduce charges by two per cent from July 1 2019, which it says represents multi-million dollar savings for the aviation industry.

A detailed initial preliminary report by Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee (MAK) has revealed key information about the final minutes of the ill-fated Sukhoi Superjet 100, Aeroflot flight SU1492, that crashed and burned at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport on May 5.