Aerotech Australasia opens Adelaide bushfire base
South Australian aviation group Aerotech Australasia opened its new bushfire base in the Adelaide Hills on Sunday, in time for the fire season. The company spent $1.5 million developing the Claremont base at Brutunga, near Woodside, in the fire-prone hills. Aerotech is contracted by the state’s Country Fire Service (CFS) to provide water bombers and
Government releases final Badgerys Creek Airport Plan
The federal government has released the Airport Plan for the proposed airport at Badgerys Creek, moving a step closer to the issuing of a sales contract to Sydney Airport. Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull and Minister for Urban Infrastructure Paul Fletcher said in a joint statement the final Airport Plan, published on Monday, was the “blueprint for
Australia will have regular nonstop scheduled passenger services to Europe for the first time in 2018, with Qantas to launch Perth-London with the Boeing 787-9. Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce said the 17-hour, 7,829nm Perth-London service would be a “game-changing route flown by a game-changing aircraft” with huge opportunities for travel tourism and trade. “It’s
Tigerair Australia returns to Canberra
Tigerair Australia ended a five-year absence from the nation’s capital on Thursday when flight TT667 touched down at Canberra Airport. The inaugural service, operated by Airbus A320 VH-VNR, was greeted with an Airservices Aviation Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) monitor cross on the way to the terminal after landing a little after 1900. The aircraft
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce expecting huge growth in US market
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce is expecting huge growth in the US market as the airline saddles up for another year sponsoring the G’Day USA initiative. The G’Day USA program for 2017 was officially launched inside Hangar 96 at Qantas’s Mascot base on Friday, with Joyce alongside Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, Trade, Tourism and Investment
Boeing’s first 787-10 enters final assembly
The largest member of Boeing’s 787 family of aircraft has entered the final assembly line at the manufacturer’s Charleston, South Carolina facility. Boeing said on December 8 the first 787-10 was expected to fly for the first time in 2017, with first delivery due to take place in 2018. “As we enter the next phase
