Virgin Blue recorded a fall in domestic passenger numbers during October, but capacity cuts saw it record a small increase in load factor. On its domestic services, passenger volumes decreased by 6.5 per cent, while available seat kilometres were down by 5.2 per cent, resulting in a marginal increase in load factor to 84.9 per
The federal government’s long awaited Aviation White Paper is due to be released on December 16, reports ABC Online. While the policy paper is not expected to see any major changes to the Green Paper released earlier this year, a key focus will be on the terms of reference for a joint federal-NSW government study
Malaysia Airlines’s first A380 delivery has been delayed by eight months, apparently at the request of Airbus. “We had been informed that the A380s, with the delivery date of January 2011 will commence in August 2011 instead,” Malaysia Airlines CEO and managing director Azmil Zahruddin told Flightglobal.com MAS has six A380s on order, and despite
Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that he is planning to meet with the European Commissioner for Transport Antonio Tajini in Rome on November 30 to progress on reaching an open skies agreement with the European Union, as well as setting a global framework for managing the aviation industry’s carbon emissions. Minister Albanese said that
International passenger traffic to and from Australia during September jumped 11.3 per cent during September, making it the largest increase in a month since March 2005. Newly released statistics from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show that 2.084 million passengers travelled internationally during September. This was helped by a 7.3 per cent
An MD-11 Freighter operated by Avient Aviation crashed shortly after departing from Shanghai Pudong International Airport on the morning of November 28. The Zimbabwean registered aircraft was departing on a flight to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, when it crashed, with some reports indicating that the aircraft may have been overloaded. Reports claim that of the seven on
