Virgin Australia has reopened its long-haul base at Melbourne Tullamarine with the resumption of nonstop flights to Los Angeles. Flight VA23, operated by Boeing 777-300ER VH-VPF, took off from Melbourne at about 1145 local time on Tuesday and was scheduled to land at Los Angeles Airport about 14 hours later. Virgin consolidated its long-haul Boeing
Hawker Pacific’s Singapore workshop has been named as an authorised service centre for two Embraer regional jets. The aircraft sales and support company’s manufacturing facility at Singapore’s Seletar Airport will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for Embraer’s ERJ 135 and ERJ 145 commercial jets. The move builds on Hawker Pacific’s existing work with the
Fiji Airways is boosting capacity to San Francisco in response to demand. The airline launched nonstop flights between Nadi and San Francisco in June 2016, initially as a twice-weekly seasonal service with Airbus A330 equipment that operated in the months of June, July, August, December 2016 and January 2017. It will now serve San Francisco
Singapore Airlines (SIA) says the Airbus A350-900 will be a permanent presence on the Melbourne-Singapore route from May 2017. The Star Alliance member has scheduled the aircraft for the daily SQ208/SQ207 rotation on a year-round basis from May 11. SIA began flying the next generation Airbus widebody to Melbourne in August 2016 on a seasonal basis.
Air Niugini has commenced nonstop service between Townsville and Port Moresby. Flight PX60, operated by Boeing 737-800 P2-PXC, touched down at Townsville a little after 1130 local time on Monday, after a 90-minute journey from the Papua New Guinea capital. The aircraft, which was greeted by a celebratory dance on the tarmac, was on the
Passengers travelling on nonstop flights from Abu Dhabi, Doha and Dubai to Australia will be subject to extra security measures that the government says have been brought in in response to national security advice. The measures include explosive trace detection screening, similar to what is in place at airports in Australia for domestic flights. There
