Regional carrier Airnorth has commenced regular public transport (RPT) service from Brisbane West Wellcamp to Melbourne Tullamarine. Flight TL130 departed Wellcamp just after 0715 on Monday morning, touching down at Melbourne about two hours later, according to flight tracking website FlightAware. The Embraer E170 VH-ANT, which is configured with 76 seats, was on the ground
Indian carrier IndiGo has become the second airline in the world and first in Asia to receive the Airbus A320neo. The low-cost carrier took delivery of the first of 430 A320neos it has on order during a handover ceremony at Airbus’s headquarters in Toulouse, France, on Friday. IndiGo president Aditya Ghosh said the A320neos, which
Air New Zealand and United plan to expand their partnership to include revenue sharing on New Zealand-US routes. The move to deepen cooperation comes as United counts down to its return to NZ for the first time since 2003, with nonstop San Francisco-Auckland flights with Boeing 787s due to begin in July. United vice chairman
Cathay Pacific has reported a near doubling of full year net profit in 2015 and says its flights to Australia have been “satisfactory” over the past year amid a downturn in the mining sector and a weaker Australian dollar. The airline group posted net profit of $HK6 billion for the 12 months to December 31
The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia (BARA) has called for more collaboration between airports, government and airlines amid some “early warning signs” the nation’s aviation infrastructure is struggling to handle the growing number of travellers into and out of the country. At a BARA function in Sydney on Wednesday evening, BARA chairman Leanne Geraghty said
Qatar Airways has confirmed a December launch for nonstop Doha-Auckland flights, with New Zealand’s most populous city one of 14 new destinations to join the airline’s fast growing network announced overnight. The route, at 7,848nm, will be the world’s longest nonstop passenger flight when the inaugural flight takes off on December 3 with Boeing 777-200LR
