Cathay to bring A350-900, 777-300ER to Melbourne in 2017
Cathay Pacific is boosting passenger and cargo capacity between Melbourne and Hong Kong with the use of the larger Airbus A350-900 and Boeing 777-300ER on the route from early 2017. The oneworld alliance member said on Thursday it would deploy the A350-900 on one of its three daily flights to Melbourne from February 1 2017,
Jetgo boosts Albury-Brisbane schedule to six flights a week
Regional carrier Jetgo is adding an extra two flights a week between Albury and Brisbane. The airline will fly six times a week on the route from November 1 with 36-seat Embraer ERJ-135 jets, compared with four flights a week currently. Jetgo managing director for airlines Paul Bredereck said the two additional flights reflected strong demand,
AirAsia X flight radar vectored to Melbourne after Sydney data entry error
Pilots of an AirAsia X Airbus A330-300 bound for Kuala Lumpur lost almost all navigational information shortly after takeoff from Sydney due to an incorrect entry into the aircraft’s flight management and guidance system, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) investigation has found. The ATSB report on the March 10 2015 incident, published on Wednesday, said
AeroVironment teams with Australian companies to supply Wasp UAS
Australian defence technology company XTEK has teamed up with California-based small unmanned aircraft system (UAS) supplier AeroVironment and two other Australian companies, Sentient Vision Systems in Melbourne and General Dynamics Mediaware in Canberra, to offer the Wasp AE Micro Air Vehicle to the Australian Army and Special Forces. XTEK has been selected as the preferred
Emirates rejigs Sydney services, adds A380 to Christchurch
Emirates’s three daily flights to Sydney will all be operated with the Airbus A380 from the end of October as part of changes to the airline’s Asia, Australia and New Zealand schedule. From October 30, the airline’s Dubai-Bangkok-Sydney-Christchurch rotation will be upgauged to the A380, from the Boeing 777-300ER operated on the route currently, and
Qantas and Jet Airways to expand codeshare partnership
Qantas has lodged an application with Australia’s International Air Services Commission (IASC) to expand its codeshare partnership with Jet Airways on Australia-India routes. The application stated Jet Airways planned to place its 9W airline code on Qantas’s flights between Sydney and Bangkok, while the Australian carrier would add its QF code on Jet’s services from
