The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) is conducting an organisational restructure in an effort to improve its regulation of air safety and how it serves the aviation community. CASA director of aviation safety Mark Skidmore said one of the key objectives of the major change in the organisation’s structure would be to reduce the time people and
Virgin Australia has returned to the top of the punctuality table, edging out Qantas as the nation’s most on-time domestic airline, government statistics show. According to figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE), Virgin had the highest percentage of on-time arrivals in October, with 89.8 per cent of its domestic flights
Virgin Australia is making a smart utilisation play with a new back-of-the-clock winter weekend flight between Christchurch on New Zealand’s South Island and Rarotonga in the Cook Islands beginning in seven months’ time. Tickets are now on sale with an introductory lead-in fare of NZ$299. The airline will fly the roundtrip service once weekly between
ATR head of global sales John Moore says large numbers of older aircraft in the 50-70 seat category still in service should support demand for its family of turboprops in the period ahead, particularly in Australia. Moore noted there were about 200 regional aircraft operating in Australia currently, with about 80 per cent of those
Airbus is on track for the first A320neo delivery next month after achieving joint EASA and FAA type certification for the aircraft, five years and over 4,300 orders after it was first announced. “This double seal of approval represents a great achievement for Airbus. It recognises the hard work performed by all the teams at Airbus and Pratt
Alliance Airlines is to acquire the entire Austrian Airlines fleet of 21 Fokker 100 and Fokker 70 aircraft under a deal that will see Alliance diversify its operations into Europe, and the Lufthansa-owned Austrian become a shareholder in Alliance. The US$15 million deal, announced on Wednesday, will see Alliance acquire Austrian’s 15 Fokker 100s and
