Cathay Pacific to start weekly Wellcamp freighter service
Brisbane West Wellcamp will have a regular cargo link with Asia from November when Cathay Pacific adds the Southern Queensland airport to its Australian freighter network. The start of the once weekly service comes a year after Cathay operated a one-off freighter flight to Wellcamp on November 23 2015 and is yet another step forward
Singapore Airlines to introduce fully-flat business class seats on Brisbane route
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is investing further in the Australian market with the introduction of fully-flat business class seats to Brisbane. The Star Alliance member and Virgin Australia partner plans to replace an Airbus A330-300 with a Boeing 777-200ER on one of its daily Singapore-Brisbane rotations from Sunday October 30. The equipment change represents an improvement
EASA lifts Puma grounding with conditions
The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has lifted its temporary flight suspension of commercial operations by Airbus Helicopters H225 (EC225LP and AS332L2) Super Puma helicopters after the agency put in place an Emergency Airworthiness Directive (EAD) to ground the type on June 2 following the fatal crash of an EC225LP in Norway on April 29.
Minister for Defence Industry Christopher Pyne has met Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter and other senior US officials and industry executives to highlight Australia’s potential to be a regional hub for the maintenance of the F-35 Lightning II, which could be worth hundreds of millions of dollars. During a visit to Washington the Defence Industry Minister
CASA delays implementation of new fatigue rules
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) has deferred the introduction of new fatigue risk management regulations for a further 12 months. The regulator said in a statement on Friday that operators would now have until May 1 2018 to transition to the proposed new provisions in Civil Aviation Order (CAO) 48.1, which covered fatigue risk management.
Sen Xenophon plans to strike down new drone regulations
Senator Nick Xenophon says he plans to seek to have the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s (CASA) new rules on the operation of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) struck out when parliament resumes next week. Under new rules that came into effect on September 29, people or organisations flying commercial RPAs, or drones, weighing less than two
