Skywest and CITIC Pacific Mining have signed an agreement to operate a scheduled charter service between Perth and Karratha. While the services will be primarily used to transport CITIC Pacific employees, 10 per cent of the seats on the flights will be available to the public. The agreement, which Skywest anticipates additional revenue of $10.4
Parliament has passed new laws which will strengthen screening arrangements for air cargo, in line with the Aviation White Paper released last year. Under the changes parcels and other freight will be security checked and certified earlier in the supply chain, before they are consolidated. This will replace the practice of aircraft operators conducting security
Qantas Freight has announced that it has joined freight quality management program Cargo 2000 as an associate member, which will see it move towards auditing and benchmarking of its efficiency. Qantas Freight head of commercial Theo Triantafillides said that joining Cargo 2000 would help to differentiate it and bring together many of the process improvements
Qantas has lodged an application with the International Air Services Commission (IASC) seeking an allocation for QantasLink to operate services from Cairns to Port Moresby from July 2010. The brief application notes that the airline seeks an allocation of 888 seats per week to operate 12 weekly services on the route using the 74-seat Bombardier
Qantas has released its latest operating statistics for January, showing that Group load factor declined by 0.6 percentage points to 81.2 per cent as domestic loads on both Qantas and Jetstar services declined. Qantas domestic services saw a 4.8 per cent fall in passengers carried during the month, while capacity was down by 1.4 per
According to statistics released by the Airports Council International, passenger and freight traffic rebounded strongly during January. ACI says that total passenger traffic for the month was up by 5.4 per cent. This was aided by strong growth in international passenger numbers, which increased by 5.8 per cent, driven by double digit increases in the
