Virgin Australia has announced that its ATR regional operation will begin flying in October, with the new 68-seat turboprops to operate additional frequencies on the Sydney-Canberra route, plus new Brisbane-Gladstone and Brisbane-Port Macquarie flights, and replace E-170s on the Sydney-Port Macquarie route. With the ATRs’ introduction into service Virgin Australia plans to operate between Sydney
Alliance Airlines will significantly grow its operations in Adelaide with the expansion of its maintenance facilities there, and the basing a Fokker 100 jet in the South Australian capital. Alliance already bases, and performs line and heavy maintenance on, its fleet of five Fokker 50s in Adelaide, but the airline will hire an additional 10
A federal court hearing into CASA’s extension of the grounding of Tiger Airways has been postponed from today to August 1. “CASA applied to the Federal Court on 7 July to continue the suspension until 1 August 2011, in order to complete its investigations of serious safety issues identified within Tiger Airways Australia’s operations,” CASA
Qantas has announced a partnership with the Prostate Cancer Foundation of Australia, which will see it fly nurses from across Australia to undertake specialist prostate cancer nurse training, and aim to help raise awareness of prostate cancer through placing the a foundation’s logo on a 737, advertising, inflight announcements and on-board messaging. “Qantas is honoured
Virgin Australia Embraer E-190 VH-ZPR has become the first E-190 to wear the airline’s new livery. VH-ZPR was spotted in the Virgin Australia colours, and wearing the name Dundee Beach, at Sydney on July 27. The E-190 had first been delivered to Virgin Blue/Australia in Brisbane on April 4 wearing an all-white paint scheme.
Virgin Australia has launched its new, 200-seat airport lounge at Brisbane’s domestic terminal, designed by architect Tim Greer of Tonkin Zulaikha Greer. The redesigned lounge features four main areas – a central lounge seating area with fabric and leather chairs, a ‘hearth dining’ area by the main entrance for “communal dining and socialising”, a ‘long
