A Royal Air Force Airbus A400M Atlas has made a flying visit to Australia. A400M ZM406 arrived in Cairns from Bander Seri Begawan on December 10 and then flew to Hobart via Sydney on December 12. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this
ANA has used its its Star Wars-themed Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner for its inaugural flight from Tokyo/Haneda to Sydney, with flight NH879 touching down at 0932 local time Saturday morning. ANA is returning to Australia for the first time since the late 1990s, and joins Qantas on the Sydney-Haneda route, while Japan Airlines flies to Sydney from Tokyo-Narita. This content is
Air China has touched down in New Zealand for the first time with the arrival of flight CA783 in Auckland on Thursday evening. The Airbus A330-200, B-5932, landed a little after 1830 local time on Thursday following its 12 and a half hour journey from Beijing. The reciprocal, CA784, took off at about 2020 bound
Boeing has marked the on-schedule roll out of the first 737 MAX with a low-key ceremony at its Renton manufacturing facility just outside Seattle. The 737 MAX 8, named Sprit of Renton, emerged from the factory and went into the paint hangar on November 30, which Boeing said was “the precise date determined when the
A PNG Air Dash 8-100 has emerged from a Cairns paintshop sporting the airline’s new livery. The turboprop P2-MCT, which previously flew for North Queensland-based Skytrans, came out of the hangar on December 3 and completed a test flight the next day before it was ferried to Port Moresby on Saturday December 5. This content
Overcast conditions have greeted the arrival of Philippines Airlines’s inaugural flight to Cairns. Flight PR218 from Manila, operated by Airbus A320 RP-C8613, landed a little after 0700 local time on Thursday. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username