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Low-cost carrier Jetstar will open two new international routes from the Gold Coast when it starts flights from the Queensland tourist hotspot to Wellington and Queenstown from December. The Qantas subsidiary says it will fly three times a week to both the New Zealand capital and Queenstown from the Gold Coast using 180-seat Airbus A320 aircraft. This content

Ryanair is the first airline to commit to the 200-seat version of the Boeing 737 MAX, ordering 100 of the single-aisle aircraft. The European low-cost carrier also has options for another 100 aircraft. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please

After about five weeks in service, Air New Zealand will deploy its Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner to Perth this Friday, September 12, a month ahead of its official launch. The arrival of the all-black Dreamliner in Perth will be quickly followed by Thai Airways 787-8 flights from Bangkok about a week later. This content is available exclusively

QantasLink passengers will now be able to use their portable electronic devices gate-to-gate after the Civil Aviation Safety Authority gave the move the all clear. The airline joins Qantas mainline, Virgin Australia and Jetstar in allowing travellers to keep using their mobile phone, tablet or other small device once the final cabin door has been

Bombardier says flight testing of its new CSeries has resumed after the three-month grounding due to an engine fire, with the program on track to enter commercial service in the second half of 2015. CSeries aircraft flight test vehicle two (FTV2) took off from Bombadier’s Mirabel facility in the Canadian province of Quebec on September

While domestic capacity discipline seems to be the order of the day at Qantas and Virgin Australia, it is a different story for the nation’s two low-cost carriers Tigerair and Jetstar. Qantas’s latest traffic statistics indicate the Flying Kangaroo (including QantasLink) reduced domestic capacity, as measured by available seat kilometres (ASK) by 2.7 per cent