The World of Aviation

ANA plans to return to Sydney for the first time since 1999 when it commences daily flights from Tokyo Haneda in December. The Japanese carrier said on Thursday it would deploy Boeing 787-9s configured with 48 business, 21 premium economy and 146 economy seats on the Sydney-Tokyo Haneda route, with the inaugural flight to take

A Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 has been sitting at Melbourne Tullamarine with its engines and landing gear covered up, windows blacked out and doors taped for the past 10 weeks. The aircraft, VH-VUM, last flew on May 2, when it was ferried from Christchurch to Melbourne as VA9949. Sister-ship VH-VUN has also spent considerable time on

While it might not have been an Airbus A380 that Real Madrid used to fly Down Under, players and officials from Liverpool Football Club would still have had plenty of room to stretch out on their long flight to Australia. The famous Merseyside club is in Brisbane to play a friendly match against A-League club

Pilots of a Virgin Australia Boeing 777-300ER that flew too low on approach to Melbourne Airport may have been suffering some fatigue towards the end of the long flight from Los Angeles, an Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) report says. The August 15 2013 incident occurred when the captain – who was the pilot flying

When the world’s biggest football club travels, it makes sense it would do so in the biggest passenger aircraft ever built. Real Madrid touched down in Melbourne on Monday ahead of matches against AS Roma and Manchester City as part of the International Champions Cup on board a chartered Malaysia Airlines (MAS) Airbus A380. The A380 that took the

China Southern has made an early start to its usual practice of adding extra flights for the summer holiday period, with Perth getting one more flight from mid-July and Melbourne going double-daily from September. The Skyteam member is adding a fourth weekly flight to the West Australian capital from its Guangzhou hub from July 16