Jake Nelson

The A330-300, registered B-HLV, was on 28 July 2020 the first of more than 85 Cathay Pacific aircraft to be mothballed in Alice Springs. B-HLV finally left Australia last week, and is now undergoing hangar maintenance checks in Hong Kong before returning to full service.

Starting next year, training company UPRT Australia, with the support of QBE Insurance, will provide the training to Sharp Airlines pilots in a bid to reduce risk of loss of control inflight, said to be the leading cause of aviation fatalities around the world.

VH-OYF landed in Melbourne on the evening of 10 June following a ferry flight from Toulouse via Muscat and Kuala Lumpur, and will undergo standard checks and modifications before entering service within the next few days. The airline’s 12th NEO, VH-OYK, arrived on 2 June.

In a statement, the Singaporean flag carrier said it would pay US$10,000 (around $15,000) to passengers who suffered minor injuries on board the flight from London to Singapore last month, which hit turbulence over Myanmar and was forced to divert to Bangkok.

In a statement, Hall Chadwick confirmed all Bonza staff had been sacked and future flights cancelled. The administrator said it had guided “a number of interested parties through the sale campaign”, allowing them to conduct due diligence and formulate offers.

Employees were notified of their termination at a meeting on Tuesday morning. Should Bonza be liquidated, the terminations will allow staff to claim unpaid salaries through the government’s Fair Entitlement Guarantee.