A Qantas Airbus A330 flying from Manila to Sydney was forced to make an emergency landing in Cairns yesterday afternoon after suffering a cockpit fire. A330-200 VH-EBL was approximately 365nm northwest of Cairns when a windscreen window heating circuit began arcing. The crew donned oxygen masks and extinguished the resultant flames from the left hand
Qantas has announced that it will again increase domestic, regional and Tasman air fares in “response to high oil and jet fuel prices”. The airline will increase fares by up to $10 per sector on domestic and regional flights for tickets issued on or after March 31. Increases of up to eight per cent will
QantasLink will again operate ski season services between Sydney and Mt Hotham, with flights to operate from June to September. The services, due to run between June 24 and September 11, will operate on selected Thursdays, Fridays, Saturdays, Sundays and Mondays. Between four and five return services per week are initially planned, building to seven
Virgin Blue has revealed it is on track to make a loss of between $30 and $80 million for the current financial year, with the airline blaming a challenging second half due to rising global fuel prices and natural disasters. Virgin Blue says record fuel prices will add an extra $50 million to the airline’s
Jetstar has continued to maintain its existing flight schedule between Australia and Japan, while making a change to its daily Gold Coast to Tokyo route in the aftermath of the country’s devastating earthquake and tsunami which struck less than two weeks ago. The airline has continued to operate its 25 weekly regular return services to
Strategic Airlines has announced plans to lease two major new premises in Brisbane, comprising an engineering hangar maintenance facility at Brisbane Airport and a new corporate headquarters. “Pending the granting by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Strategic’s engineering license, we intend to use the original Boeing hangar facility to undertake engineering maintenance on the
