A 26 year old man has received a $4000 fine for saying that there was a bomb onboard a Jetstar aircraft to get passengers to “move a little quicker”. Cairns man Noel Marama received the fine after he told fellow passengers on a flight that had arrived from Brisbane on June 27 that there was
Strategic Airlines has announced that it will add one additional service on the protected Perth-Derby route from August 4. The new service will be operated by a 156-seat, two class A320 on Wednesdays. It will lift the number of frequencies on the route to four per week. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation
Qantas has lodged an application with the International Air Services Commission (IASC) seeking a two year extension to its codeshare arrangement with South African Airways (SAA) on the South Africa route. Under its arrangement, which started in 2000, SAA buys a ‘hard block’ of seats and codeshares on Qantas services from Sydney to Johannesburg, while
Virgin Blue has reportedly hired three Qantas executives to bolster its push into the lucrative corporate and government travel markets. According to Fairfax Media reports, Virgin has poached Qantas’s former head of government relations Jane McKeon, who will take on a similar role at Virgin based in Canberra in coming months. Virgin has also managed
Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has blasted the Coalition for supporting a disallowance motion put forward by independent Senator Nick Xenophon which has again defeated changes by the government to cockpit access regulations. “Twice now this government has, on the advice of security experts, attempted to put in place regulations which restrict access to only those
Tiger Airways Australia has announced that it will charge passengers who only have carry-on hand luggage to use check-in counters for bookings made after July 1. The airline says that those passengers travelling with only carry-on baggage and wanting to use a check-in counter to complete their check-in process will be able to pre-pay a