Singapore Airlines low-cost offshoot Scoot has revealed some details of its introduction plans for its Boeing 787-9, the first of 20 of which is due to enter service in November. Scoot will become the second 787-9 operator after Air New Zealand, and will configure its aircraft with 375 seats in a 35-seat 2-3-2 business class
Hawaiian Airlines and the North Bondi Surf Life Saving Club have announced that the airline will become a long-term sponsor of the club’s life-saving club’s competition boat crews. The agreement will provides for signage rights for the airline at the club’s new North Bondi clubhouse, as well as signage major events at the beach. This
Qantas announced on February 7 that it has applied to operate services between Moree and Sydney under the NSW Government’s five-year regulated route licensing agreement. The route lost its RPT services with the collapse of Brindabella Airlines in December, and has been subject to a new tender. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation
British Airways has issued a statement saying it will continue to operate services to Australia following Virgin Atlantic’s announcement last week that it would withdraw from the Australian market from May. As the last European airline to soon be operating RPT services to Australia, BA says it is expanding its services to the Asia region
Regional Express has announced that its financial results for the first half of the 2013/14 financial years would be “significantly deteriorated.” In a statement to the ASX, chief operating officer Garry Filmer said the forecast profit before tax (PBT) for the first half of the financial year would be approximately 40 per cent of that achieved
REX has announced its subsidiary AirLink will not take up the licences it was granted for services between Sydney and Cobar and Mudgee because “negotiations on partnership agreements with both councils” had broken down. In a February 7 statement, AirLink CEO David Brooksby said that the two routes represented a “significant commercial risk” and that