Urgent action is needed if Australia's aviation industry is to avoid disruptions due to the shortage of pilots and skilled maintenance engineers, a report says.
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has cited rising fuel prices for a sharp drop in profit for the three months to June 30 2018.
Qantas plans to operate a once-weekly freighter service from Darwin to Hong Kong that can transport fresh produce from Australia’s Top End to Asia’s supermarket shelves and dining tables. The proposed service has been scheduled to take off in late August with Boeing 767-300F equipment departing Darwin on Sunday night, Qantas said on Wednesday. The
Regional airline Fly Corporate is adding Dubbo to its route network with plans to serve the NSW Central West city from Brisbane and Melbourne Essendon. The airline will operate six flights a week on the Dubbo-Brisbane route from August 7, while twice weekly Dubbo-Melbourne Essendon services are set to commence on September 28. Both routes
Qantas has scheduled Hong Kong as the first Asian destination with its Boeing 787-9 fleet, with flights to the Special Administrative Region to begin in mid-December. The first 787-9 service to Hong Kong is due to take off on December 13 2018, when the aircraft replaces the Airbus A330 on Qantas’s daily Melbourne-Hong Kong service
Boeing says the commercial airline industry will require 635,000 new pilots over the next 20 years in response to a doubling of the fleet and record demand for air travel. The figure was included in Boeing’s 2018-2037 Boeing Pilot and Technician Outlook published at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh on Monday (US time). It is down slightly
