The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has ended its cargo cartel investigation into Air New Zealand, clearing the airline of any wrongdoing in the United States. The announcement comes after Air New Zealand received a letter from DOJ Federal Prosecutors confirming that the airline was “no longer a subject or target of the ongoing grand
The excise on aviation fuel for domestic use – both jet A-1/avtur and avgas – will increase under the federal government’s long awaited carbon tax plan, announced by Prime Minister Julia Gillard in Canberra today, with the increases set to cost the industry $930 million over four years. According to the government’s new www.cleanenergyfuture.gov.au website
Chinese carrier Shenzhen Airlines has been approved to join the Star Alliance network, after unanimous approval by its chief executive board. “With the approval of our chief executive board we today formally start the integration process of Shenzhen Airlines, which upon completion will allow Star Alliance to once again enlarge its offer across mainland China
Virgin Australia has partnered with the Renewable Oil Corporation (ROC), Dynamotive Energy Systems Corporation (DYMTF) and the Future Farm Industries Co-operative Research Centre (FFI CRC) to develop a sustainable aviation biofuel, aimed at reducing environmental impact and helping Australian farms. The partnership will experiment with the use of fast pyrolysis technology developed by Dynamotive to
The Tiger Airways crew of a flight that descended below the minimum safe altitude on approach to Melbourne Airport on June 7 “did not notice” a disparity for that altitude between the paper approach chart they were using and the database in the aircraft’s FMGS (flight management guidance and envelope system), an ATSB preliminary report
Tiger Airways Australia CEO Crawford Rix has stood down in the wake of CASA’s descision to seek to extend the grounding of the airline through to August 1. “Tiger Airways Australia’s current CEO, Mr Crawford Rix, will leave the airline on 31 July 2011,” the airline said in a statement issued late in the evening
