Singapore Airlines (SIA) says it will adjust flight times to Canberra and Wellington as part of efforts to open up the route to more connection opportunities beyond its Singapore hub. SIA commenced flying a Singapore-Canberra-Wellington rotation four times a week in September 2016 on what it termed the “Capital Express” route using Boeing 777-200s configured with 38 angled
First repainted QantasLink Fokker 100 emerges
The first Fokker 100 operated by Qantas’s regional arm QantasLink has emerged from the paintshop. Fokker 100 VH-NHP is pictured here flying into Perth Airport on Wednesday after repainting with Douglas Aerospace in Wagga Wagga. Flight tracking website Flightaware shows that VH-NHP had arrived in Wagga Wagga for repainting on June 9. VH-NHP is one
Phantom Media, publisher of Australian Defence Business Review and Australian Aviation – Australia’s leading defence business and aerospace titles across print and digital – will produce the official PACIFIC 2017 Show Daily. Some 2,000 copies of the full colour, A4 format PACIFIC 2017 Show Daily will be printed for each of the three days of the region’s leading naval and maritime
Gold Coast Airport says the federal government has approved its 2017 Master Plan, which details improvements to the facility over the next 20 years to cater for the projected increase in passenger numbers. The airport’s chief operating officer Marion Charlton said the Master Plan was focused on growth in new aviation infrastructure and commercial facilities over the next
Sydney Airport has posted its highest monthly increase in international travellers so far in calendar 2017 as airlines add more flights and upgauge equipment on existing routes. The airport said on Thursday the number of international travellers passing through its terminals rose 9.7 per cent to 1.23 million in June, compared with the prior corresponding
Federal Minister for Infrastructure and Transport Darren Chester says the publication of high resolution maps of the Indian Ocean has uncovered no new information to warrant a resumption of the search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. Geoscience Australia said on Wednesday it had released the sea floor mapping data covering 278,000 square kilometres of
