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Airbus continues a flow of order announcements from Asian carriers at this week’s Aviation Expo in Beijing, with Vietnam’s VietJetAir signing an MoU for up to 92 A320s. The carrier will also lease eight more from third party lessors. The purchase agreement covers for 56 A320s and six A321s, plus 30 purchase rights for additional

To stimulate demand on the Sydney-Rotorua route, Air New Zealand and Rotorua International Airport have worked together to reduce costs and improve schedules, but the airline will suspend the service during winter due as seasonally low demand affects the route’s viability. From September 2014, Air New Zealand will move its twice-weekly service to Monday and

Airbus has announced orders for up to 68 aircraft at this week’s Aviation Expo in Beijing, led by two start-up airlines and aircraft lessor BOC Aviation. Zhejiang Loong Airlines based in Hongzhou in Eastern China has signed an MoU for 20 A320s. The airline has recently been approved by the Civil Aviation Administration of China

CASA is holding a series of briefings for pilots on new licensing regulations, which take effect from December 4 2013. The briefings will be held simultaneously on Monday October 21 between 1800 and 2100 in Brisbane, Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Adelaide and Perth. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member

Airbus has announced a lower weight variant of the popular A330-300, optimised for use on domestic and regional routes in high growth markets with large populations and concentrated traffic flows. With China seen as one of the most important potential markets, the new model will be optimised to seat up to around 400 passengers for

Airservices has begun upgrade works to the instrument landing system (ILS) installed on the main runway at Melbourne Airport to improve low visibility operations. The essential works include increasing the size of the localiser antenna array at the southern end of the main runway (Runway 16). Works are scheduled to conclude by mid-November with re-certification