Canberra Airport has described the first three months of Singapore Airlines’ (SIA) international flights as an “outstanding success”. SIA’s four times a week Singapore-Canberra-Wellington flights kicked off in late September 2016, returning international service to the Australian capital for the first time in more than a decade. An ARFF salute welcomes @SingaporeAir's first flt into
Singapore Airlines’s new service to Canberra and Wellington has featured plenty of empty seats during its first months of operations, new figures suggest. According to the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) monthly report on international airline passenger and freight numbers, SIA’s flights between Singapore and Canberra were roughly half full in October,
South Australians will have a new one-stop option to the United States from June 2017 when Fiji Airways begins twice weekly flights between Nadi and Adelaide. The route will be flown using Boeing 737-800s, with the inaugural service due to take off on June 30 2017, Fiji Airways said in a statement on Wednesday. In
Sydney Airport has been given four months to decide if it wishes to build and operate the proposed airport at Badgerys Creek. The federal government on Tuesday issued Sydney Airport with a Notice of Intention (NOI), effectively a sales contract, that outlines the formal contractual terms for the project. When the Commonwealth sold Sydney Airport
The Australian War Memorial is displaying a fully-restored Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Hudson bomber at Canberra Airport as part of efforts to raise awareness about the institution. Hudson A16-105 made its first flight in 1938 and has been restored to its wartime configuration of December 1942. Acquired by the AWM in 2001, A16-105’s subsequent restoration took four years to
South Korean carrier Jin Air has become the latest international airline to begin service to Australia, after its inaugural flight from Seoul touched down in Cairns on Thursday. Flight LJ659, operated by Boeing 777-200ER HL7743, landed a little after 0630 local time after an eight-hour journey from Seoul. The aircraft was met by an Airservices
