The airline will fly between Brisbane and Uluru on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday using Airbus A320 aircraft. The first flight, JQ667 on board the A320-200 VH-XNN, touched down at Ayers Rock Airport just before 11am on Thursday.
More than 1.1 million people are expected to pass through Melbourne’s domestic terminals over the 17 days from Friday, as well as more than 500,000 international travellers. The airport expects the next three Fridays to be the busiest days, with around 105,000 passengers on each day.
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) will issue grants across the supply chain to support domestic production of SAF from agricultural feedstocks, with applications to open from mid-July.
Dovetail, which is 20 per cent owned by Rex, will use HTWO’s fuel cells for initial testing in Australia as a preliminary step to full-scale trials, with an eye to conducting a first flight next year. The HTWO system will be integrated with Dovetail’s Iron Bird, which was successfully tested last year.
Chinese passengers have recovered to 54 per cent of pre-pandemic levels in May, compared to only 22 per cent at the start of the year. Sydney’s international terminal saw 1,076,000 passengers over the month, while domestic traffic grew 5.5 per cent year-on-year to 1,934,000, or 87.3 per cent of May 2019.
The Flying Kangaroo had announced its intention to take delivery of the extra narrowbodies in February but rubber-stamped the decision with Airbus at the Paris Air Show.