Sydney Airport has reported a double digit increase in international passengers in March thanks to the timing of the Easter holidays and fuller aircraft in the month. There were 1.371 million international passengers at Sydney Airport in March, the company said in a regulatory filing to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Friday. This was
Brisbane Airport chief executive Julieanne Alroe is the 2018 recipient of the Aviation/Aerospace Australia distinguished leadership award. The awards, handed out at a dinner in Melbourne on Wednesday night, also recognised BAE Systems Australia for its diversity program and RMIT University for its leadership in training, among others. Alroe edged out finalists QinetiQ senior principal
The RAAF has taken delivery of its tenth and final Leonardo/L-3 C-27J Spartan battlefield airlifter. The delivery was marked with a flying display and ceremony at RAAF Base Richmond on Wednesday, and is the latest milestone for the AIR 8000 Phase 2 program which saw 10 C-27Js ordered in 2012 to replace the capability lost
Scoot chief financial officer Vinod Kannan says he expects the Australian market to be a significant source of passengers for the low-cost carrier’s (LCC) expansion in Europe with upcoming flights to Berlin. The Singapore Airlines-owned Scoot plans to commence Singapore-Berlin flights – which will be one of the longest routes operated by an LCC –
The Royal Australian Navy has successfully tested the new Cooperative Engagement Capability (CEC) its new Hobart class destroyers will be equipped with. The tests were conducted in March and early April aboard HMAS Hobart and NUSHIP Brisbane in the Gulf of St Vincent southwest of Adelaide. Video showing the NUSHIP Brisbane sea trials. CEC is designed to enhance the capability
An Australian project to develop a space-based augmentation system (SBAS) that promises navigational accuracy to less than 10 centimetres plans to commence trials in the aviation sector in June. In January 2017, the Commonwealth announced a two-year project to trial a Satellite Based Augmentation System, which uses space-based and ground-based aids to support the Global
