Category: Maintenance

One of the two Jetstar Airbus A320s damaged when a fire suppression system triggered inside a maintenance hangar at Newcastle Airport is back in the air. The two narrowbodies – VH-VQW and VH-VQC – were inside the hangar when the fire system tripped on April 23, filling the facility with foam. This content is available exclusively

Air Niugini will send its engineering cadets to Cairns for two years of on-the-job training as part of a new partnership with Hawker Pacific and Aviation Australia. The new initiative, due to be launched on Friday, has Air Niugini engineering cadets working out of Hawker Pacific’s maintenance facility at Cairns Airport and receiving training from

Air New Zealand has chosen the Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G-JM engine for its order of 13 Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft due for delivery from 2017. The geared turbofan engines will be maintained at the Christchurch Engine Centre, a joint-venture between Air NZ and Pratt & Whitney that was established 15 years ago and

South Australia’s aviation industry has received a second blow in April with Alliance Aviation Services to outsource heavy maintenance work to Europe. Alliance, which is mainly a fly-in/fly-out and charter operator, said on Tuesday it would send its Fokker fleet to Austrian Technik Bratislava for its regular heavy maintenance checks. This content is available exclusively to Australian