While there has been a bit of a drop off in mining of late, there is still plenty of activity that will support fly-in/fly-out operators, industry players say. The changes in the resources industry has been described as a construction sunset and production sunrise. However, with a number of new projects still in the pipeline, there
Tigerair Australia chief executive Rob Sharp believes there is enough demand in Western Sydney for the proposed airport at Badgerys Creek and the low-cost carrier is keen to fly there. Sharp says Tigerair supports a second airport being built in Sydney. “At the end of the day it is not the airport that attracts us,
Air New Zealand’s Boeing 787-9 will take off on its first commercial flight at 0900 Auckland time on Saturday. Flight NZ103 on Saturday, August 9, has been confirmed as the Dreamliner’s revenue service debut in Air NZ colours, according to flight schedules published by the Airline Route website. The flight was due to land in
Low-cost airline Cebu Pacific Air hopes to be able to expand in the Australian market once the cap on available capacity between Australia and the Philippines is lifted. The budget airline is scheduled to start flying between Manila and Sydney from September with four flights a week on Airbus A330-300 aircraft configured with 436 all-economy
Cathay Pacific will add more than a 1,300 extra seats a week between Hong Kong and Sydney when it runs one of its four daily services with Boeing 777-300ER aircraft. The 777 replaces the smaller Airbus A330-300 three days a week from December 1, and will be daily from February 15 2015, Cathay Pacific confirmed
Qantas says it will now avoid Iraqi airspace after updated advice from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FAA issued a new advisory note over the weekend, restricting US airlines from flying at or below 30,000ft “due to the potentially hazardous situation created by the armed conflict in Iraq”. The regulator had previously advised
