The first Airbus A380 for Korean carrier Asiana has emerged from the manufacturer’s paint shop in Hamburg. The aircraft will now have its interior cabin, inflight entertainment system, air conditioning, lighting and other cabin amenities fitted in Hamburg before delivery to the airline in June. The airline has six A380s on order and will operate
Air New Zealand has extended its agreement with the Cook Islands government to operate non-stop services from Rarotonga to Los Angeles and to Sydney, firming up the November 2013 that the airline was the preferred bidder for the services. The airline has operated the services since 2007 and 2010 respectively, and has extended the arrangement
Emirates Airline has announced it has extended its sponsorship of the Collingwood AFL club for a further five years until the end of the 2019 football season. The new agreement will extend its arrangement with Collingwood to over 20 years, the airline’s longest running corporate sponsorship in Australia. “When Emirates first arrived in Australia we
Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has announced that satellite evidence has shown without doubt that the missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had crashed in the southern Indian Ocean off the southwest coast of Australia. In an unscheduled Monday evening media conference which was attended by reletiaves of the 239 passengers on board, Mr Rajak said: “With
Qantas has issued a detailed rebuttal of claims made about it at a Senate enquiry hearing on Friday, while CASA too has rejected claims that it is too close to Qantas and that it has failed in its regulatory oversight of Qantas’s offshore maintenance. The Senate Rural and Regional Affairs and Transport References Committee’s inquiry
The Queensland government has invited carriers from across Australia to attend industry briefings on regulated air routes in the state. The briefings will be held in Brisbane on March 17 and Townsville on March 19. Following a review of government-contracted long-distance passenger services in regional Queensland, the state government announced in February that three routes
