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Cloudy skies in the nation’s capital have greeted the arrival of FlyPelican’s inaugural Canberra-Dubbo service. Flight FP635, operated by 19-seat Jetstream 32 VH-OTE, landed a little after 1715 local time, after a one-hour trip from Dubbo. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of

Scoot has named a former Groupon executive as its new Australian boss. Jared Simcox will oversee the Singapore Airlines-owned carrier’s operations Down Under as general manager for Australia, Scoot announced on Wednesday. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login.

There has been a significant increase in the number of birdstrike incidents over the past two years involving high capacity aircraft operations, new figure show. The findings were part of an Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) report into birdstrike events recorded over the past 10 years. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

Virgin Australia/Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) and Alliance Airlines say they are willing to have the competition regulator monitor their charter operations in an effort to secure approval for a proposed partnership. In December, the ACCC knocked back the pair’s application for a charter alliance, which if approved would allow Virgin and Alliance to work