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Virgin Australia is to set up a cabin crew base in Adelaide, in what the airline said is recognition of the city’s growing importance to domestic operations. Creating up to 80 new jobs, Virgin Australia chief customer officer Mark Hassell said: “We have more than 40 flights arriving and departing each day at Adelaide Airport. Having

Boeing’s first 787-9 has completed its first flight, taking off from Everett at 1102 local time on September 17, before landing over five hours later at Boeing Field, Seattle. The flight was crewed by 787-9 senior project pilot Mike Bryan and 787 chief pilot Randy Neville. They departed north from Everett, and tested the RR

In a widely anticipated move, Qantas is reviewing the future of its heavy maintenance base in Avalon, Victoria. The continued retirement of 747s, which had been overhauled at Avalon, has significantly reduced workload at Avalon and spurred consideration of a significant downsizing or closure of the facility. Qantas Domestic CEO Lyell Strambi said Avalon “was

Newcastle Airport will double its existing terminal under an $80 million expansion program that it hopes will encourage more domestic and international services. The airport, which is owned by local councils Port Stephens and Newcastle City, has received strong backing from the NSW government both in funding towards new developments and through policy support for

Airbus has received its first shipment of carbon fibre elevators for the A350 from the Harbin Hafei Airbus Composite Manufacturing Centre (HMC), a joint venture between Airbus and Chinese partners. Under an agreement signed in 2007 between Airbus and the Chinese government, Airbus agreed to allocate five per cent of the A350 airframe to be

Bombardier’s new Cseries narrobody airliner made its first flight on September 16 from the company’s Mirabel, Quebec facilities. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username or Email Password Forgot password? Keep me signed in on this device. If