While domestic capacity discipline seems to be the order of the day at Qantas and Virgin Australia, it is a different story for the nation’s two low-cost carriers Tigerair and Jetstar. Qantas’s latest traffic statistics indicate the Flying Kangaroo (including QantasLink) reduced domestic capacity, as measured by available seat kilometres (ASK) by 2.7 per cent
Low-cost carrier Scoot has earmarked Sydney, Perth and Hong Kong as the first three cities for Boeing 787-9 operations. The Singapore Airlines-owned airline has scheduled first flights with the larger version of the Dreamliner to those three cities in the week starting Sunday, March 29 2015, according to the Airline Route website. Bangkok (Don Mueang) was
United Airlines has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner ahead of the launch of Melbourne-Los Angeles services in October. The 787-9 will be used initially on domestic US routes, ahead of its international debut to Melbourne on October 26. United’s first commercial flight with the larger version of the Dreamliner was scheduled as UA1086
Charter and fly-in/fly-out operator Cobham Aviation Services says it has won a contract extension with resources giant Chevron to 2020 worth up to $160 million and will add an Embraer E190 jet to its fleet. Cobham says it will be the first Australian operator of the Embraer in the closed charter aviation sector. “The introduction
Qantas regional subsidiary QantasLink has announced an expansion of its Dash 8 turboprop maintenance facilities at Tamworth. The expansion will see the upgrade of QantasLink’s existing Tamworth Airport hangar and the expansion into a second hangar, and will lead to the creation of 25 new jobs at the site. “The new hangar allows us to do
Regional carrier Skytrans says it will exit the Sydney-Toowoomba route once QantasLink begins flights from Sydney to Brisbane West Wellcamp airport in November. Skytrans chief executive Simon Wild said his small, family-run airline just could not compete against the big national carriers such as Qantas. “We are proud to have been the pioneer in getting that
