Category: Airlines

Tiger Airways has implemented an auditable process for identifying and managing navigational database anomalies that were a primary contributor to the incident on June 7 2011 that allowed the crew of an A320 on approach to Melbourne to descend 500ft below the minimum altitude of 2,500ft, the ATSB has said in its report on the

Emirates’ A380 A6-EDA at the Qantas Jet Base after the engine fire incident that forced the crew to return to Sydney. (Lee Gatland) A fire in an engine aboard an Emirates A380 soon after departure from Sydney forced the crew to return to the airport on November 11. Flight EK413, with 380 passengers aboard, was

The governments of Thailand and Australia have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) allowing more flights between the countries. Airlines of the respective countries can now each operate up to 20,000 seats a week to and from Sydney, Melbourne, Perth and Brisbane. Regional airports will also gain benefit from the MoU with Thai carriers given

Regional Express (REX) has retained all eight of its New South Wales intrastate routes, which it now has a renewed licence to operate through to March 2018. Despite the positive outcome, REX general manager of network and strategy Warrick Lodge said:  “Whilst Rex is the biggest beneficiary of the NSW licensed route regime, we have