The World of Aviation

Qantas and Jetstar were the best and second-best major domestic airlines for on-time performance in August, while Virgin Australia had the highest number of cancellations and its low-cost offshoot Tigerair Australia registered some improvement. However, the figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show Regional Express (Rex) was Australia’s most punctual domestic

Fresh from setting up a facility in Saudi Arabia, training school Aviation Australia has expanded its reach further with a new office in Shanghai. Aviation Australia said in a statement it planned to offer courses to Chinese students on aircraft maintenance engineering, cabin crew training and technical English as part of a cooperative partnership agreement.

Sydney Airport has posted a one per cent increase in passenger traffic in August, underpinned by growth in international travellers. The airport handled 3.202 million passengers in August, up from 3.17 million in the prior corresponding period, Sydney Airport said on Friday. International passengers rose 1.8 per cent in the month to 1.067 million, while there

The Victorian government has identified the preferred route for a $260 million rail line linking Melbourne’s Avalon Airport to the existing Melbourne-Geelong track. A spur rail line of about 5.5km that begins between Lara and Little River stations on the Melbourne-Geelong rail line was identified as the most preferred option, according to the Avalon Airport

The MQ-4C Triton has completed an 11-hour, 3,290nm transcontinental flight from the Northrop Grumman facility in Palmdale, California, to Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland, where the unmanned aircraft system (UAS) is due to begin its next phase of testing. The aircraft flew the same flightpath as was used to transfer the Broad Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator

Nextant Aerospace has completed its first sale in New Zealand, annoucing on Friday that it had sold a 400XTi quick-change air ambulance to Skyline Aviation for operations with its New Zealand Air Ambulance Service operation. New Zealand Air Ambulance Service directors Mike and Annabel Toogood said the Nextant 400XTi would be the first fully-accredited intensive care jet ambulance