Air New Zealand has announced that it has signed a conditional agreement for the sale of its aviation maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO), design and manufacturing subsidiary Safe Air to Airbus Group Australia Pacific. Air New Zealand chief operations officer Bruce Parton stated that the airline had been exploring opportunities to secure a solid future for
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One of the two Jetstar Airbus A320s damaged when a fire suppression system triggered inside a maintenance hangar at Newcastle Airport is back in the air. The two narrowbodies – VH-VQW and VH-VQC – were inside the hangar when the fire system tripped on April 23, filling the facility with foam. Flight tracking website Flightaware showed
Air Niugini will send its engineering cadets to Cairns for two years of on-the-job training as part of a new partnership with Hawker Pacific and Aviation Australia. The new initiative, due to be launched on Friday, has Air Niugini engineering cadets working out of Hawker Pacific’s maintenance facility at Cairns Airport and receiving training from
Airservices and Recreation Flying Australia have awarded 10 young men and women a $2,500 Giving Young Flyers Training Support scholarship to help them complete their flight training. The recipients of the scholarship were chosen based on their commitment to aviation, aptitude for flying and financial need, Airservices said in a statement. “We hope that through
Jaryd Wetzel’s dream of joining the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) and flying F-35s has been given a boost after the first-year Swinburne University of Technology student was awarded the Sir Reginald Ansett scholarship for aviation. The scholarship will provide Wetzel with $30,000 over three years towards his Bachelor of Aviation degree at the university.
