Pilots of a Virgin Australia Boeing 777-300ER that flew too low on approach to Melbourne Airport may have been suffering some fatigue towards the end of the long flight from Los Angeles, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) report says. The August 15 2013 incident occurred when the captain – who was the pilot flying
When the world’s biggest football club travels, it makes sense it would do so in the biggest passenger aircraft ever built. Real Madrid touched down in Melbourne on Monday ahead of matches against AS Roma and Manchester City as part of the International Champions Cup on board a chartered Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Airbus A380. The A380 that took the
China Southern has made an early start to its usual practice of adding extra flights for the summer holiday period, with Perth getting one more flight from mid-July and Melbourne going double-daily from September. The Skyteam member is adding a fourth weekly flight to the West Australian capital from its Guangzhou hub from July 16
Jetstar and Virgin add extra services as Bali flights take off on Tuesday as Qantas joins effort to bring stranded Australians home
Improved conditions have allowed Virgin Australia and Jetstar to operate flights to and from Bali and bring back travellers left stranded due to the Mount Raung ash cloud, with Qantas also pitching in to help return Australians home. Both Virgin and Jetstar say conditions at the airport on Tuesday are safe for flying, but caution that the Mount
CASA Director of Aviation Safety (DAS) Mark Skidmore issued the new directive in June, which says, among other things, that aviation safety regulations must be shown to be necessary and developed with a view to addressing known or likely safety risks that cannot be addressed effectively by non-regulatory means alone. Further, the directive says: “If
Jetstar resumes Bali flights
Jetstar has scheduled a number of flights to and from Bali for Monday after deciding it was safe to operate flights into and out of the airport. Flights into and out of Bali have been severely disrupted in the past week as the ash cloud from the Mount Raung volcano forced airlines to cancel flights
