The new aircraft, which have the ability to take off and land from short and varied airfields, were handed over to the PNGDF at Port Moresby on 2 November.

The three-bay hangar will allow Alliance to bring maintenance back onshore for its fleet of over 70 aircraft, replacing contracts in Slovakia and the UK and creating roughly 100 skilled jobs as well as 16 new traineeships and apprenticeships.

China Eastern flight MU715 from Shanghai on Wednesday morning, aboard the A330-200 B-5931, was the first service from mainland China to touch down at Brisbane in 1,359 days, marking the beginning of a three-times-per-week non-stop service that will increase to daily from 8 December.

The quickly constructible, movable, and cost-effective aircraft revetments are open-air structures intended to shield parked aircraft from discovery, blast, and fragmentation damage.