iscoverSkywest has taken delivery of the first ATR 72 it will operate for Virgin Australia, with the aircraft handed over at ATR’s Toulouse facility on August 11. Leasing company (and Skywest associate company) Avation has four ATR 72-500s and four ATR 72-600s on order which Skywest will operate for Virgin Australia, with the remaining ATR
QantasLink will introduce the Dash 8 Q400 turboprop to Western Australia for the first time with the planned launch of services between Geraldton and Perth from November 21. QantasLink will offer a twice daily Monday to Friday service on the route, alongside daily return flights on Saturday and Sunday. The new service will compete with
Tiger Airways Australia resumed ticket sales today with a gradual return to scheduled flights from Friday August 12, after the embattled airline’s AOC was reinstated by CASA yesterday afternoon. Tiger has implemented a drastically reduced flight schedule focused around its Melbourne base plus Adelaide, Sydney, Brisbane, Perth and the Gold Coast. Flights are expected to
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has cleared Tiger Airways Australia to resume imited flying from August 10, ending a nearly six week suspension of its AOC after the airline was first grounded by the regulator on July 2. The decision follows a thorough investigation by CASA into a number of safety issues at Tiger, beginning with
Strategic Airlines is to discontinue its Bali/Denpasar services from Perth and Townsville, and will also drop its Brisbane-Gladstone services. First to be cancelled is Strategic’s A320 Gladstone-Brisbane service, wrapping up on August 12. That will be followed by a cessation of its weekly Brisbane-Townsville-Denpasar A320 service from October 1. (Strategic will continue to operates its
The grounding of Tiger Airways’ Australian operations looks set to continue another week due to problems with documentation the airline supplied to CASA. “The main outstanding issues relate to documentation,” CASA spokesman Peter Gibson said on August 5. “When we served proposed conditions on to Tiger, we said, these are the things you’re going to
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