Silkair to be merged with Singapore Airlines
Singapore Airlines (SIA) plans to bring Silkair under the main SIA brand and spend $100 million upgrading the regional carrier’s cabins to offer closer product and service consistency for passengers. Silkair is wholly-owned by SIA flying an all-narrowbody fleet of 22 Boeing 737 and 11 Airbus A320 family aircraft to regional destinations within the Asia
Qantas has dropped plans to expand a codesharing arrangement with Air Niugini on Australia-Port Moresby routes. Australia’s International Air Services Commission (IASC) said in a statement on May 17 Qantas has withdrawn its application to maintain codesharing with Air Niugini on the Brisbane and Sydney to Port Moresby routes and add flights from Cairns and
First customer A330neo takes flight
The first Airbus A330neo planned to be delivered to a customer has completed its first flight. The A330-900neo wears the colours of launch customer TAP Air Portugal, and departed Airbus’s home airport of Toulouse for its 4hr 32min maiden flight on Tuesday. Airbus says MSN1819 is the first aircraft fitted with the Airspace cabin, and is
Note – an updated version of this story was published on May 15 incorporating comments from Canberra Airport. Qantas says one of its Boeing 737-800s was held for ransom in an unprecedented event at Canberra Airport in March 2017 following a diversion due to weather. It is understood Canberra Airport prevented the aircraft – carrying
Home again – the repairs and the return of Qantas A380 VH‑OQA Nancy-Bird Walton
“Profound” is how Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny described the significance of A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton’s return to the Qantas fleet. Qantas’s first Airbus A380 and hence the symbolic flagship of the airline’s fleet, VH-OQA returned safely to Singapore under Captain de Crespigny’s command after an uncontained explosive failure of its number two Rolls-Royce Trent
Qantas says more than 40 regional councils have put their hands up to be the site of the airline group’s planned new pilot training academy. To be called the Qantas Group Pilot Academy, Qantas said in February it would invest $20 million to set up the school at an existing airfield in regional Australia in
