Tiger Airways says it is confident it will soon resume services in Australia after CASA issued it with formal conditions that the airline must comply with before returning to the air. “CASA has today issued Tiger Airways Australia with a set of formal conditions that the airline must comply with, some of which must be
Jetstar has begun a campaign to recruit 150 new pilots for its Airbus A320 and A330 fleets across its Australian, New Zealand and Asian operations, as the Qantas subsidiary continues its aggressive expansion. “We have got to the point where we’re the fastest-growing and most successful airline ever, having reached almost 20 million passengers in
Virgin Australia has announced that its ATR regional operation will begin flying in October, with the new 68-seat turboprops to operate additional frequencies on the Sydney-Canberra route, plus new Brisbane-Gladstone and Brisbane-Port Macquarie flights, and replace E-170s on the Sydney-Port Macquarie route. With the ATRs’ introduction into service Virgin Australia plans to operate between Sydney
Alliance Airlines will significantly grow its operations in Adelaide with the expansion of its maintenance facilities there, and the basing a Fokker 100 jet in the South Australian capital. Alliance already bases, and performs line and heavy maintenance on, its fleet of five Fokker 50s in Adelaide, but the airline will hire an additional 10
A federal court hearing into CASA’s extension of the grounding of Tiger Airways has been postponed from today to August 1. “CASA applied to the Federal Court on 7 July to continue the suspension until 1 August 2011, in order to complete its investigations of serious safety issues identified within Tiger Airways Australia’s operations,” CASA
Qantas has announced a partnership with the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, which will see it fly nurses from across Australia to undertake specialist prostate cancer nurse training, and aim to help raise awareness of prostate cancer through placing the a foundation’s logo on a 737, advertising, inflight announcements and on-board messaging. “Qantas is honoured