Australian Aviation

Virgin Australia has announced that it will offer business class flights to Mackay and open a new 260 square meter lounge at the city’s airport before the end of 2011, in a bid to lure the region’s lucrative mining and tourism markets. “Mackay is an extremely important market for Virgin Australia,” Virgin Australia CEO and

The Australian Airports Association (AAA) has welcomed the Federal Government’s announcement of an extension to Tripartite Deeds for Australia’s privatised airports, which will free up plans to invest up to $9 billion in airport facility upgrades over the next 10 years. “The extension of the tripartite deeds provides for an orderly management process in the

The public debate preceding the decision to establish a no-fly zone over Libya to protect much of its population from the armed forces of the dictator Muammar Gaddafi was largely ill-informed. Many participants offered little more than the usual assertions: that no-fly zones don’t work, cost too much, and cause excessive casualties on both sides.

Air New Zealand has announced an increase in capacity to a number of prominent international destinations, as it prepares for a busy Northern Winter schedule. First off the mark are Asian destinations, with the airline increasing overall capacity on Chinese routes during the Northern Winter period (November 2011 – March 2012) by 21.6 per cent,

A new report compiled by the CSIRO and a host of airline and industry groups has deemed ‘bio-derived’ fuel “economically and environmentally” sustainable, with a number of benefits tipped for both Australian and New Zealand. The Flight Path to Sustainable Aviation (FPSA) report aims to set out a clear pathway for establishing a bio-fuel industry

Canadian-based firm Viking Air Limited has received final production approval from Transport Canada for the manufacture of its Twin Otter Series 400, with the first five aircraft already completed.   The Production Manufacturing approval, given as a formalised manufacturing certificate, now allows Viking to issue airworthiness certificates for aircraft produced under their revised manufacturing approval. The