Airservices has 17 newly qualified aviation rescue fire fighters following the end of an 11-week training course. The 17 men and women have graduated from the Airservice Learning Academy course at Melbourne Airport, having undertaken theoretical and practical training that included simulated aircraft and structural fires. Members of graduating class have been stationed at various
South Australia’s aviation industry has received a second blow in April with Alliance Aviation Services to outsource heavy maintenance work to Europe. Alliance, which is mainly a fly-in/fly-out and charter operator, said on Tuesday it would send its Fokker fleet to Austrian Technik Bratislava for its regular heavy maintenance checks. The transfer of that work, which is
Tigerair Australia’s fleet of Airbus A320s will have some component maintenance work completed at Air New Zealand’s Auckland engineering facility as a result of a new agreement between the Kiwi carrier and AJW Group. Air NZ chief operations officer Bruce Parton said he hoped the extended partnership with AJW would “create a real hub for
The Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) is calling for applications for its 2015 pilot and engineering scholarships. There are four scholarships available in 2015, with applications due by July 31. The winners of the Ansett Aviation Training Pilot Scholarship, Hawker Pacific/Australian Avionics Aircraft Maintenance (Avionics) Engineers Scholarship, Jeppesen Aircraft Maintenance (Avionics) Engineers Scholarship and Jeppesen
Cobham Aviation Services says it expects to suffer some job losses from Qantas’s decision to bring the heavy maintenance of its Boeing 717 fleet in-house. Qantas said on Friday it was establishing a heavy maintenance base for its 18 717s in Canberra, which was due to open in October. That work is currently done by Cobham in Adelaide.
QantasLink is establishing a new heavy maintenance base in Canberra that will be responsible for the airline’s fleet of 18 Boeing 717s. The facility will open in October and create about 40 skilled engineering roles, QantasLink said in a statement on Friday. Currently, QantasLink conducts line maintenance on its 717s at Canberra Airport. “Canberra will
