Fiji Airways has flagged opening a new destination in Asia as the airline confirms delivery of a new Airbus A330-300 aircraft due to arrive in December 2015. The aircraft will join the carrier’s existing three Airbus A330-200s, which fly from the island nation to Australia, New Zealand, the US and its sole Asian city Hong
Hinterland Aviation managing director Mark Dorward says he expects air links to communities affected by the voluntary shutdown of Skytrans to be restored by other airlines once the dust settles. Skytrans chief executive Simon Wild’s decision to stop flying on Friday January 2 and wind up the company after 25 years of operations has left
Photographer Craig Murray has sent us this great image of two of Qantas’s newly-retired Boeing 767-300ERs, VH-OGU and OGO, parked outside Qantas’s Hangar 3 at Brisbane Airport on Sunday, now devoid of their Qantas markings and kangaroo tail. OGO and OGU were two of the five 767s operating on the type’s last day of passenger
On the ninth day since Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 was lost from radar contact between Singapore and Surabaya, a total of five large pieces of hypothetical aircraft wreckage and 30 bodies are all that the Indonesia-led international search and recovery effort has been located. The “big parts”, as search and rescue agency BASARNAS chief Bambang
Qantas has announced it will operate a special direct flight to Istanbul, Turkey, to coincide with the Centenary of ANZAC commerations in April. The flight, which will carry the special QF100 flight number, will be operated by a 364-seat Boeing 747-400, and will depart from Sydney to Perth and then nonstop to Istanbul’s Sabiha Göeçken international airport, on
One week since Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 disappeared from radar over the Java Sea, the recovery and investigation are proceeding slowly. Seasonally high seas and winds up to 56 km/h are continuing to complicate remote submersible and diver operations, while the search areas have been expanded slightly eastward and the Most Probable Area focus for the