The World of Aviation

Jetstar is bringing back non-stop service between the Gold Coast and Perth, and introducing new international routes to Indonesia and New Zealand from March 2015 through improved fleet utilisation. The Qantas-owned low-cost carrier said it will be the first airline to offer direct flights between Cairns and Bali when its three-times-a-week flights begin on March 31

Mystery surrounds the eventual retirement home of Qantas Boeing 747-400 VH-OJA, with the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) describing social media reports that it will take the aircraft as “rumour mongering”. HARS president Bob De La Hunty says the “rumours” on social media are “all over the place”. “None of it is right,” De La Hunty told

Qantas says yields improved across both its domestic and international operations for a third straight month in November as it maintained capacity discipline at home and benefitted from more benign capacity growth from foreign carriers. On the domestic front, Qantas said on Tuesday yields – an industry term measuring average airfares per passenger – improved

Perth has been named as Emirates’ 34th Airbus A380 destination, with the Dubai-based carrier to add the West Australian capital to its growing network featuring the double decker superjumbo from May 2015. Emirates said it would swap one of its three daily flights to Perth from the Boeing 777-300ER to the A380 from May 1, which

The Queensland government will contribute $300 million to RACQ CareFlight Queensland over the next decade to assist with the operations of the state-based helicopter rescue service and to upgrade its helicopter fleet and network of bases. “The Newman government has provided CareFlight with certainty over the next decade, enabling the service to continue to meet

GE Aviation says it has delivered its 2,000th GE90 engine used on the Boeing 777 family of aircraft. The GE90 engines were used by about 70 operators around the world, GE Aviation said in a statement on Monday (US time). The 2,000th engine delivered was for the popular 777-300ER variant. GE Aviation general manager of