Category: Airlines

Fiji Airways says it will add four additional aircraft, increase seat capacity by 35 per cent and staff numbers by nearly 30 per cent under a new five-year strategic plan. The renamed Air Pacific says it will lease or buy an additional A330-200, two 737-800s and two ATR 72-600s (one of which will replace an

Moody’s has joined Standard & Poor’s in downgrading Qantas’s credit rating from an investment grade to a ‘junk’ rating, potentially leading to increased borrowing costs for Australia’s largest airline. The Moody’s downgrade comes as little surprise, given it had announced it was reviewing its grading status for Qantas following the airline’s December revelations it is on

  Taiwan’s China Airlines has been named as the first customer for Air New Zealand’s innovative Skycouch. 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 you

It was more than just the blue skies and hot weather that contrasted Boeing 787-8 test aircraft ZB002’s arrival in Australia on Monday with its stop over in New Zealand on the weekend. Boeing has chosen Alice Springs as the location for hot weather testing as part of the 787-9’s flight test program, and rather