Raytheon Australia has successfully retained its contract to support the aircraft operated by the ADF’s Aerospace Operational Support Group (AOSG) at RAAF Base Edinburgh. The contract was signed by AVM Mark Skidmore, Air Commander Australia, and Raytheon Australia’s managing director, Michael Ward. “This successful re-compete of the Aircraft Research and Development Unit (ARDU) contract which

Singapore Airlines has launched what it calls ‘future-proofing’ of some of its European fares, where it will offer cash back to passengers if fares fall below those they have already booked on before they travel. Customers booking travel through Singapore Airlines’s early bird Europe program from October 26 to January 5 will see their fares

Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe has apologised to the families of the victims of the crash of one of the airline’s DC-10s at Mount Erebus in Antarctica in 1979, saying that the airline has not offered enough support for them. “I can’t turn the clock back, but as I look forward, I would like

Aviation Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) service officers at Broome, Rockhampton and Mackay have recently been involved in assisting local brigades with fires in their respective regions. Airservices Australia says that at Rockhampton, ARFF crews were involved in fire containment and property protection measures around the Lakes Creek area, while they also assisted in filling

Some oneworld carriers and Malaysia Airlines are preparing to move terminals at London’s Heathrow airport. From October 29, British Airways’s and Qantas’s services to and from Australia at Heathrow will move from Terminal 4 to Terminal 3, ending a project to co-locate all oneworld members in the same terminal at Heathrow. Most other oneworld carriers

A new Christmas Island based airline has applied to the International Air Services Commission to allow it to start flights between Christmas Island and Singapore using a Boeing 737-300 wet leased from Our Airline. Australian Indian Ocean Territories Airlines (AIOTA) says in its application, dated October 22, that it is seeking unlimited capacity on the