WA’s Department of Transport has awarded Skywest Airlines a 12 month extension on the Perth to Derby (Curtin) Regular Public Transport (RPT) route. Skywest took over the service in February following the collapse of Air Australia. It currently operates a 162-seat Airbus A320 on the route from Mondays to Thursday and flies a 100-seat Fokker
AirAsia X will lease six Airbus A330s as the Malaysia-based long haul budget carrier moves to ramp up flights to Australia and Asia. The Jetstar competitor plans to begin taking delivery of the aircraft next year. The A330-300s are being leased from US-based International Lease Finance Corp in a deal worth about $500 million. AirAsia
Qantas expects to save $300 million a year through 2,800 previously announced job cuts under its five year transformation plan, CEO Alan Joyce told a US business forum yesterday in Sydney on Wednesday. Joyce also revealed that the airline will report an underlying profit but a statutory loss when it releases its annual financial results
Increasing competition between Qantas and Virgin Australia has yet to pay a dividend for passengers as domestic airfares in Australia rose by five per cent over the three months ending in June. That was well above a three per cent rise across the Asia-Pacific region and roughly one per cent increases in the Americas and
A distracted Qantas A380 pilot incorrectly entered departure runway information into the aircraft’s flight management system ahead of takeoff from Los Angeles last October, resulting in takeoff speeds not being displayed on the aircraft’s flight instruments as it rolled down the runway, the ATSB has found. As a result, the flightcrew were forced to call
Air New Zealand subsidiary Eagle Air has resumed limited operations after grounding its fleet of 18 Beech 1900D turboprops yesterday over hairline cracks discovered in the tails of at least three of the aircraft. Eagle Air said it would put four of the planes back in service today after they were inspected and cleared to
