Tiger Airways has entered into an agreement with Standard Chartered bank to finance pre-delivery payments (PDP) on 14 new aircraft it has on order. “Standard Chartered Bank has been mandated to arrange and sole finance a Singapore Dollar-denominated structured PDP financing arrangement for Tiger Airways, relating to a total of 14 Airbus 320s scheduled for
Skywest has announced that it has received approval to operate Fokker 100 jets on its services to Ravensthorpe. The new Ravensthorpe services will operate four times a week from November 15, initially for a period of one year under an agreement with the Shire of Ravensthorpe and First Quantum Metals, which operates a nickel mine
CASA has issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (NPRM) which would see pilots of large aircraft conduct most of their non-normal exercises on flight training devices and flight simulators, a move it says will help to implement a safer training environment. The NPRM proposes to change Civil Aviation Orders 40.0 and 82.0 to restrict pilots
Melbourne Airport has announced that three Chinese airlines will operate daily services to Melbourne from later this year. “In November, China Eastern will be increasing to daily Shanghai services from four flights per week and in December Air China will be increasing its services from Beijing and Shanghai,” said Melbourne CEO, Chris Woodruff. “This follows
Virgin Blue CEO John Borghetti has said that he expects conditions across the carrier’s domestic and international markets to improve next year, while he will also reveal more of the carrier’s plans for the Asian market over the next year. “I think that next year should be a reasonably, you know, I’m not saying a
Qantas has rejected claims by the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) that QantasLink is flying aircraft with faulty locks on cockpit doors. The ALAEA says that locks on the cockpit access doors of its Bombardier Q400 fleet can be easily opened, and despite management being aware of the issue, the aircraft continue to fly.
