Supporting relief efforts in the aftermath of the recent typhoon, an Ilyushin Il-76 and Antonov An-12 have been positioned to the Philippines to provide high-capacity airlift capabilities to remote airfields. Chapman Freeborn has positioned the two freighters on rotation at Cebu and Manila and Tacloban airports to augment larger freighters that cannot access smaller airfields.
For 20 years the DC-9 was a staple of Qantas’s domestic predecessors TAA/Australian Airlines’ services to Canberra before the type was retired in 1989, but the modern incarnation of this fondly remembered jet, the Boeing 717, has touched down in the nation’s capital as Qantas re-arms for the hotly contested Canberra corporate market. Qantas’s QantasLink subsidiary is introducing five
An Etihad A330-200 declared an emergency soon after departing Brisbane early afternoon today. The aircraft, operating flight EY473 from Brisbane to Singapore with 164 passengers and 11 crew on board, returned to Brisbane due to a flightdeck instrument failure. A spokesman for the airline said: “The flight crew followed all standard operational procedures, declared an
In the latest in a series of demonstration flights to optimise flight efficiency and minimise environmental impact, Airservices has collaborated with Cathay Pacific under the Asia and Pacific Initiative to Reduce Emissions (ASPIRE) program to conduct four flights across the globe, two of those through Australian airspace on the one day. The Cathay Pacific flights
Etihad has successfully concluded a transaction that sees it take a 24 per cent equity stake in India’s Jet Airways. In April the two airlines signaled their intent to form an equity alliance, made possible by a relaxation in Indian foreign investment regulations. The deal was valued at US$325 million and comes after Emirates reportedly
Brindabella Airlines has begun returning its four Jetstream 41 aircraft into service after they were grounded on Friday for overdue engine maintenance checks. “Brindabella Airlines maintenance review of Jetstream aircraft sees one aircraft back to service. Three to go,” CASA announced via its Twitter account on Thursday morning. The Canberra-based regional airline, which merged with
