Airservices Australia has signed a contract with Saab to trial remote tower technology (RTT) at Alice Springs from late 2012. The Alice Springs remote tower will be controlled from Adelaide, 1500km to the south, with Airservices Australia acting general manager Air Traffic Control, Mark Rodwell, confident that the evaluation of the new technology will give
CAE awarded RAAF KC-30A sim training
CAE Australia has been awarded a contract to provide aircrew training and simulator maintenance and support services for the RAAF’s incoming KC-30A tankers. Under contract to Airbus Military, CAE has designed and built the KC-30’s full-flight and mission simulator, plus a KC-30 air refuelling officer part-task trainer and a CAE Simfinity integrated procedures trainer. These
Rex identifies seven vulnerable routes
Regional Express (Rex) has revealed that it is considering pulling out from no fewer than seven routes in response to rising fuel prices and softening passenger demand. Rex has identified Sydney-Taree; Sydney-Grafton; Sydney-Moruya; Sydney-Bathurst; Melbourne-Griffith; Melbourne-King Island; and Melbourne-Merimbula as markets it is considering withdrawing from, and says it has now begun briefing community stakeholders.
Tiger Airways is to “shortly” move three of its Avalon routes to Melbourne/Tullamarine following a recent network review. With one Avalon based A320 being shifted to Melbourne, flights to Brisbane, Adelaide and the Gold Coast from Avalon will operate instead from Melbourne/Tullamarine. However, Tiger will continue to fly to Sydney and Perth from Avalon, and
Qantas has called for expressions of interest for voluntary redundancies among its 7000-strong cabin crew workforce. Qantas has said that following the expressions of interest process around 350 cabin crew may be offered voluntary redundancies, but that no forced redundancies are planned. “The voluntary redundancy program for cabin crew is part of a number of
Braathens orders 10 CSeries
Swedish firm Braathens Leasing has placed a firm order for five Bombardier CS100 and five CS300 jetliners, plus options for a further 10 CSeries. The CSeries will be operated by Braathens Aviation subsidiary Malmö Aviation from its base at Bromma-Stockholm City Airport. Bombardier’s CS100 is expected to enter service in 2013, with the larger CS300
