Australian Aviation

Barwon Heads Airport outside Geelong will be able to operate year-round after securing funding to have its runway sealed. Victoria’s regional aviation fund will allocate about $650,000 to seal the airport’s 750-metre gravel north/south runway. Lighting along the runway will also be improved. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. LoginBecome a MemberTo

Being a regional aviation pilot is an experience like no other There is no other country in the world where aviation is as appreciated, ingrained and necessary as Australia. Almost all of Australia’s major airlines past or present trace their heritage to regional Australia. And for 2. 6 million people living in regional Australia, air

CareFlight in the Top End melds aviation with medicine Aeromedical retrieval services have provided Northern Territorians with fast access to medical care since the early 1930s. Now more than 80 years after Dr Clyde Fenton’s pioneering medical flights out of Katherine, CareFlight has expanded its lifesaving rotary and fixed-wing operations to serve Territorians and visitors

Technology and tourism is driving a traffic boom at New Zealand’s Queenstown Airport Through the introduction of jet operations and new instrument approach procedures, Queenstown Airport has become New Zealand’s fourth busiest and its fastest-growing airport. But as recently as the late 1980s Queenstown, which sits in the shadows of the 7,500ft Remarkables mountain range,

Qantas will have two aircraft options should it choose to transition its long over-water flights to Johannesburg and Santiago de Chile from four-engine Boeing 747-400s to big twins after the Airbus A350 received ETOPS certification for up to 370 minutes. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has approved the A350-900 for Extended-range twin engine aircraft

Finding pieces that fit Australian regional aviation from other regional markets Australia’s regional airlines and the country they serve are unique. Geography, population density (or lack of) and resource exploitation have developed a finely balanced structure of supply and demand across the country, and the airlines that have grown to meet that demand – and