The World of Aviation

Qantas’s planned resumption of flights between Perth and Singapore from June has been given a boost with Finnair to codeshare on the five times a week service. Finnair said in a statement on May 13 the move to add its AY airline code on Qantas’s Boeing 737-800 services would “create additional scheduling and route options”

Air New Zealand and Tourism New Zealand will boost promotional activities in South America and the United States in the year ahead after extending their marketing partnership. The two parties will each contribute NZ$10 million under the new agreement, Air NZ said on Monday. In addition to the focus on the Americas – Air NZ

Launceston Airport has been given the green light to proceed with $65 million in infrastructure improvements over the next decade as part of its 20-year Master Plan. The federal government has approved Launceston Airport’s master plan, which has forecast passenger numbers at the northern Tasmanian gateway to grow to 2.5 million a year by 2035, from

Qantas will further reduce turnaround times on domestic flights from July as part of efforts to improve fleet utilisation and lower unit costs. A slide presentation accompanying Qantas’s investor day held on Tuesday showed the airline is reducing turn times – how long an aircraft spends on the ground between flights – for domestic Boeing

Two KC-30A crews have completed the first boom contact by the aircraft in RAAF service. The first KC-30’s crew deployed the 17-metre-long Aerial Refuelling Boom System (ARBS) to make 14 successful contacts with the refuelling receptacle of a second KC-30 during a three-hour flight out of RAAF Base Amberley southwest of Brisbane on May 13. No fuel

Air New Zealand is adding extra flights to Perth to support the Kiwi flag carrier’s services to the Americas. The new three times a week Perth-Auckland offering, which starts on December 11 2015 and runs until May 1 2016, will be flown with Boeing 767-300 aircraft and adds to an existing daily 787-9 service on the route,