Air New Zealand has re-committed to supporting the country’s famous All-Blacks rugby team for the 2014 season. The airline says it will launch a global campaign promoting the association between the two well-known brands, featuring some of the All-Blacks players. “We have been a sponsor of rugby in New Zealand for more than two decades
The Australian Workers Union has described Qantas’s decision to send heavy maintenance work for its remaining 747s offshore as “short sighted, lazy and unnecessary.” In a January 21 statement, the AWU said options still exist for the airline to perform the maintenance locally. “Even given Qantas’ intention to move 747 maintenance out of Avalon, the
In an op-ed piece published in Fairfax newspapers and the Qantas media page on January 24 entitled ‘Armchair Experts in the Cockpit’, Qantas CFO Gareth Evans has taken aim at some of the airline’s detractors, and has restated the Group will not relinquish its 65 percent domestic market share ‘line in the sand’. In particular,
Qantas has announced that heavy maintenance of its remaining 747-400 airliners will move offshore once its Avalon heavy maintenance facility near Geelong closes in March. In a January 21 statement, the airline said; “We indicated when we announced the closure of our Avalon maintenance base that maintenance on our Boeing 747 aircraft may need to
Regional Express has called for expressions of interest from regional NSW centres for regular public transport (RPT) air services to and from Sydney. The call comes in the wake of the collapse of Brindabella Airlines late last year and Rex subsequently recruiting 14 of Brindabella’s pilots. The airline says it has a “window of opportunity”
The first locally recruited and trained cabin crew members for Virgin Australia’s Adelaide base graduated on January 20. The 24 graduated have been training and testing for the past seven weeks, and will be part of the 80 new jobs the airline says it has brought to Adelaide since opening its base there. “We are
