Category: Airlines

QF32 pilot Captain Richard de Crespigny has defended the actions taken by his crew after an uncontained engine failure forced the Sydney-bound Airbus A380 to return to Singapore’s Changi Airport in November last year. Speaking at a joint event hosted by the Australian Association of Aviation and Aerospace Industries (AAAAI) and Monash University in June,

Up to 27,500 seats per week will now be made available to Australian and Indonesian airlines operating between both countries, after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)  on July 1. Representing an 86 per cent increase on capacity on existing levels, the agreement covers 25,000 seats per week for airlines of either nation

Tiger Airways’s grounding in Australia will cost around A$1.5 million a week, parent Tiger Airways Holdings notified the Singaporean stock exchange on Sunday. The grounding is currently in effect through until Saturday July 9, stranding about 35,000 passenger booked to fly on Tiger during that time. The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) may apply to

The ALAEA has cancelled planned Qantas industrial action this week and lifted its overtime ban following CASA’s grounding of Tiger Airways late on Friday evening. “We fully intended to kick that campaign off on Monday in earnest but the Tiger woes have thrown a spanner into our works,” federal secretary Steve Purvinas wrote on the