Airservices wins training award
Airservices has received a Transport and Logistics Industry Skills Council (TLISC) award for its approach to recruiting and training air traffic controllers. Australia’s air traffic manager took out the Innovation and Excellence in Workforce Development Award at the TLISC Awards held in Melbourne on Thursday for its unique curriculum, world-class facilities and expert training. “Airservices
ACCC says passenger experience little improved despite increasing airport profits
Travellers at the nation’s four largest airports have experienced little to no improvement in the passenger experience despite ever increasing profits, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) says. The competition regulator’s Airport Monitoring Report for 2013/14 says Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney airports achieved increases in aeronautical revenues in real terms, both in total
CASA committed to reducing costs
Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) says it is committed to reducing costs and stresses no existing fees will be increased under proposed changes to the way it charges for licensing and other regulatory services. CASA issued a statement on Thursday responding to industry criticism published before Easter regarding its draft Cost Recovery Implementation Strategy
Virgin expands international network with two European codeshares destinations
Virgin Australia has expanded its international network with two new European codeshare destinations. The airline said on Thursday it would place its VA airline code on alliance partner Etihad Airways’ flights from Abu Dhabi to Madrid and Edinburgh. The two destinations were the 36th and 37th European cities on Etihad’s network that Virgin offers codeshare
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has released its final report into a fatal helicopter rescue winching accident where a patient slipped out of a rescue strop device while being winched on board. The tragic accident occurred on August 31 2013 while the rescue crew of Bell 412EP VH-VAS, call signed HEMS 5, was retrieving
Alliance Airlines is hoping to capture a slice of the Brisbane-Emerald market by offering seats on its fly-in/fly-out service for sale to the public. The airline hopes to sell the spare capacity on its three flights a week between Brisbane and Emerald with 80-seat Fokker F70LRs that currently service its mining and corporate contracts. Alliance
