MAS A380s to be delayed
Malaysia Airlines’s first A380 delivery has been delayed by eight months, apparently at the request of Airbus. “We had been informed that the A380s, with the delivery date of January 2011 will commence in August 2011 instead,” Malaysia Airlines CEO and managing director Azmil Zahruddin told Flightglobal.com MAS has six A380s on order, and despite
Auckland bonds fully subscribed
Auckland International Airport Limited announced on November 30 that its NZ$125m bond issue closed fully subscribed. “Auckland Airport is extremely pleased with the success of this issue,” said chief financial officer Simon Robertson. “It allows us to extend our maturity profile and demonstrates again that there is strong appetite from New Zealand investors for bonds
Albanese pressing for open skies with EU
Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that he is planning to meet with the European Commissioner for Transport Antonio Tajini in Rome on November 30 to progress on reaching an open skies agreement with the European Union, as well as setting a global framework for managing the aviation industry’s carbon emissions. Minister Albanese said that
International passenger traffic jumps
International passenger traffic to and from Australia during September jumped 11.3 per cent during September, making it the largest increase in a month since March 2005. Newly released statistics from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show that 2.084 million passengers travelled internationally during September. This was helped by a 7.3 per cent
MD-11F crashes in Shanghai
An MD-11 Freighter operated by Avient Aviation crashed shortly after departing from Shanghai Pudong International Airport on the morning of November 28. The Zimbabwean registered aircraft was departing on a flight to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, when it crashed, with some reports indicating that the aircraft may have been overloaded. Reports claim that of the seven on
MAp eyeing Qantas terminal
MAp Airports Limited (formerly Macquarie Airports) has said that it would be interested in acquiring Qantas’s Terminal 3 at Sydney Airport if it was put up for sale. “Sydney Airport, with the right parameters, would look at T3 if the opportunity arose,” CEO Kerrie Mather told the Australian Financial Review. MAp holds a 74 per
