The ATSB has opened an investigation into what it describes as a serious incident involving the loss of separation between two Qantas A330s 20km west of Adelaide on September 20. Australian Aviation understands the aircraft, A330-220s VH-EBS operating Perth-Sydney and VH-EBO operating Sydney-Perth, came within 700ft of one another vertically and 1.5nm laterally as one aircraft
Airlines operating into and out of Auckland are set to save tens of millions of dollars in fuel following the implementation of an integrated flow management and arrival management system. In what is said to be a world-first deployment, airlines are already benefiting from significantly reduced airborne delays and optimised flight profiles. Airways New Zealand
Airbus and China’s Air Traffic Management Bureau (ATMB) have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to cooperate on modernising the country’s Air Traffic Management System and to implement the latest Air Traffic Management (ATM) technologies. The MoU focuses on improving capacity and efficiency by harmonising China’s ATM within its own boundaries and with regional air
Airservices and Emirates have partnered to conduct a demonstration flight through Australian airspace showing how improved air traffic management can reduce the impact of aviation on the environment. Emirates 777-300ER operating EK434 from Dubai to Brisbane on September 1 was part of the Indian Ocean Strategic Partnership to Reduce Emissions (INSPIRE) program. The program aims
Airservices has commissioned its new $16.9 million control tower at Adelaide Airport, in what Adeialde Airport has described as “a generational change in air traffic control, moving from a paper-based system to electronic”. At 44 metres high, the new tower, which is more than twice the height of the former building built in 1983, mirrors
Lockheed Martin will team with four leading air traffic management (ATM) technology providers in bidding for the oneSKY Australia tender. oneSKY is the project name given to the procurement by Airservices and Defence of Australia’s new generation ATM system, which expected to be operational before the end of the decade. Australia’s Adacel Technologies, Daronmont Technologies