Philippine Airlines will increase its flights to Australia from five to seven flights per week from October 28, the airline has announced. The airline will discontinue its current triangular services from Manila to Sydney and Melbourne in favour of direct flights between the Philippine capital and Australia’s two largest cities. Sydney flights will operate on
Cobham Aviation has won a two-year fly-in fly-out contract to transport Xstrata Nickle Australasia employees to a remote gravel airstrip at the Cosmos Nickel Mine in WA. The contract utilises Cobham’s recently introduced BAe 146-100 jets fitted with special ‘gravel kits’ giving the jets the capability to operate on rough airstrips. The kits include rubber
Air New Zealand will spend $100 million upgrading its fleet of Boeing 777-200ERs to match its newer long-haul aircraft. The carrier said its eight -200ERs, which entered service in 2005, will be upgraded starting in the second quarter of 2014 and should be complete within a year. The work will bring the -200ERs in line
Jetstar will add a ninth A320 aircraft to its New Zealand fleet as it boosts domestic and trans-Tasman capacity. The Qantas subsidiary said it will add up to 20 additional weekly flight between Wellington and Auckland and up to seven extra flights from Christchurch to Wellington and Auckland. An extra weekly flight from Queenstown to
Virgin Australia says its mobile boarding passes will work with the new iPhone’s Passbook app. The app, billed as a ‘digital wallet’ for storing such things as boarding passes, movie and event tickets and membership cards, will come integrated with the new iPhone 5, scheduled to go on sale Friday. The app will also be
Emirates will launch a daily A380 service between Dubai and Singapore’s Changi Airport. The 517-seat A380 will replace a 354-seat Boeing 777-300ER and will complement three other daily 777 services, giving Emirates a total of 1659 seats per day between Dubai and Singapore. The dedicated A380 service is scheduled to launch in December. Emirates said
