Qantas hands over the keys to VH-OJA
While Qantas has handed the “keys” to VH-OJA over to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS), the record-breaking Boeing 747-400 will be surrounded by a lot of familiar faces as it settles into a new home at Illawarra Airport. That’s because, as Qantas Captain Greg Matthews explains, there are about 400 HARS volunteers that have actually
Solomon Airlines hopes its new Sydney service due to begin in June will help boost tourist arrivals to Honiara from Australia and beyond. Sydney is the carrier’s second Australian port and builds on its current four times a week service between Brisbane and Honiara. While it competes with Virgin Australia on the Brisbane route, Solomon
Everything in readiness for VH-OJA’s final flight
Qantas has dotted every ‘i’ and crossed every ‘t’ ahead of the retirement flight for its first Boeing 747-400, VH-OJA. All that is left to do now is hope for good weather on Sunday. Qantas is gifting VH-OJA City of Canberra, which flew non-stop from London to Sydney for its delivery flight in 1989, to
Work on Onesky to begin as Airservices signs “forward services contract” with Thales
Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss says the creation of one air traffic management system for the whole country will be of particular benefit for airports that handle both military and civilian aircraft. The federal government has named Thales as the successful supplier to commence work on the Onesky project, which aims to combine both the
Qantas returns to profit in first half of 2014/15, forecasts an improved second half
Qantas has forecast an improved second half as it further screws down on costs and realises further gains from lower fuel prices after reporting its best first half result in five years. The airline group said net profit for the six months to December 31 2014 came in at $203 million, a big turnaround from
Airbus highlights A350’s ETOPS abilities
Airbus says its A350-900 can fly virtually unrestricted from any two cities in the world with 370-minute extended twin-engine operation approval (ETOPS) – so it’s no longer seeking the 420-minute ETOPS for which it originally applied. When the European Aviation Safety Agency certified the A350-900 on September 30 2014, it allowed the aircraft to fly
