The World of Aviation

Solomon Airlines hopes its new Sydney service due to begin in June will help boost tourist arrivals to Honiara from Australia and beyond. Sydney is the carrier’s second Australian port and builds on its current four times a week service between Brisbane and Honiara. While it competes with Virgin Australia on the Brisbane route, Solomon

The Defence Materiel Organisation (DMO) has announced that the KC-30A Multi Role Tanker Transport (MRTT) aircraft has been removed from the Projects of Concern list, following acceptance of the boom capability. AIR 5402 had been managed as a Project of Concern since February 2010 due to delays in delivery attributed to Airbus Defence and Space,

Investigators have been unable to figure out why a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) unit on board a Qantas Airbus A330-200 failed to warn pilots about a loss of separation incident in September 2013, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says. The incident on September 20 2013 involved VH-EBS operating from Perth to Sydney and VH-EBO

Qantas has dotted every ‘i’ and crossed every ‘t’ ahead of the retirement flight for its first Boeing 747-400, VH-OJA. All that is left to do now is hope for good weather on Sunday. Qantas is gifting VH-OJA City of Canberra, which flew non-stop from London to Sydney for its delivery flight in 1989, to

Indonesia AirAsia X says it plans to start direct flights between Melbourne and Bali from March 18, following the green light from Australia’s Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) to operate in this country. CASA said on Wednesday it had cleared the airline to begin flights Down Under and granted it an air operator’s certificate. “This means

Residents of Tamworth will have a choice of airlines for flights to Sydney from May when Virgin Australia begins flights to the Northern NSW city. Australia’s second largest carrier plans to operate between Sydney and Tamworth, the home of the nation’s largest country music festival, six times a week from May 25 using 68-seat ATR72-600 aircraft.