Category: Airlines

A Skytraders Airbus A319 was involved in an incident at Cocos Island where the aircraft started rolling while its rear airstairs were still down. According to a report from The Australian newspaper, the aircraft was carrying 120 asylum seekers and had begun taxiing when bystanders noticed that the aircraft was dragging its rear airstairs, causing

Lufthansa has announced that it plans to power its aircraft using jet fuel blended with biofuels from 2012, despite the carrier not having been involved in any test flying of biofuels. CEO Wolfgang Mayrhuber said that the carrier was hoping to gain two major benefits from moving to use biofuel blends to power its fleet.

Virgin Blue, Qantas, Jetstar and Regional Express have been commissioned to provide travel services for the whole of Australian government, which is aiming to slash $160 million in travel costs over the next four years. Under the new arrangements, which will take effect from July1 this year, the four carriers will compete for their share

Airlines PNG has announced that it is wet leasing a Lockheed L100 Hercules to provide outsize cargo lift for a liquefied natural gas project. In an arrangement with Alaskan based Lynden Air Cargo and Australian charter broker Adagold Aviation, Lydnen will operate the Hercules under the operational surveillance of Airlines PNG. The aircraft will be