British Airways has issued a statement saying it will continue to operate services to Australia following Virgin Atlantic’s announcement last week that it would withdraw from the Australian market from May. As the last European airline to soon be operating RPT services to Australia, BA says it is expanding its services to the Asia region
REX has announced its subsidiary AirLink will not take up the licences it was granted for services between Sydney and Cobar and Mudgee because “negotiations on partnership agreements with both councils” had broken down. In a February 7 statement, AirLink CEO David Brooksby said that the two routes represented a “significant commercial risk” and that
The Australian Airports Association (AAA) has called for a full review of the CASA regulations governing the operation of Australian aerodromes as part of its submission to the government’s review of aviation safety regulation. Specifically, the industry body says MOS Part 139 should be reviewed as a matter of priority to bring the standards up
The Israel Aerospace Industries’ (IAI) TaxiBot narrow-body aircraft tug has set a record of 23 knots (41kmh) during taxi trials with a 74 tonne Airbus 320 at its Chateauroux test site in France. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article,
Virgin Atlantic has announced it will cease services between Hong Kong and Sydney from May this year. The airline, which flies a daily service from London Heathrow to Sydney via Hong Kong using Airbus A340-600 equipment, says it will now terminate that service at Hong Kong, citing low profitability. This content is available exclusively to
Labor’s candidate for the federal seat of Griffith in this Saturday’s by-election, Terri Butler, has called for a trial curfew for Brisbane Airport even though there has been no public call for one and Brisbane experiences few noise complaints, largely thanks to rigid night-time noise abatement tracking and runway use, writes AA columnist Doug Macdonald. The curfew calls also