The World of Aviation

Qantas regional subsidiary QantasLink has announced an expansion of its Dash 8 turboprop maintenance facilities at Tamworth. The expansion will see the upgrade of QantasLink’s existing Tamworth Airport hangar and the expansion into a second hangar, and will lead to the creation of 25 new jobs at the site. “The new hangar allows us to do

Regional carrier Skytrans says it will exit the Sydney-Toowoomba route once QantasLink begins flights from Sydney to Brisbane West Wellcamp airport in November. Skytrans chief executive Simon Wild said his small, family-run airline just could not compete against the big national carriers such as Qantas. “We are proud to have been the pioneer in getting that

Virgin Australia sent an ATR 72 to Melbourne and Launceston over the weekend for staff training and route familiarisation flights, potentially laying the groundwork to expand its ATR turboprop regional operations beyond NSW and Queensland. Flight tracking website flightaware.com showed Virgin ATR 72-500 VH-FVM flew from Brisbane to Melbourne on Saturday, August 30, and spent two nights at Tullamarine before

The Australian Maritime Safety Authority (AMSA) has awarded McMurdo Group’s Techno-Sciences Inc a 10-year contract to build and operate a new satellite ground station and mission control centre for detecting emergency distress beacons. Construction of a six-antenna medium-altitude earth orbit search and rescue (MEOSAR) facility at Mingenew, about 380 kilometres north of Perth in Western

Qantas’s regional arm QantasLink has been unveiled the first airline to offer regular public transport services from Brisbane West Wellcamp Airport. QantasLink will fly 11 flights a week between Sydney and Wellcamp – located about 20km southwest of Toowomba and 130km from Brisbane. Flights were due to start on November 17, Qantas said in a statement

Visitors to the 2015 Avalon Airshow will get the chance to walk through a full-size mockup of the Pilatus PC-24 business jet. Manufactured by Swiss-based Pilatus Aircraft, the first PC-24 was rolled out last month, and has so far garnered 84 firm orders, including three from the Royal Flying Doctor Service’s Western Operations (WA) section. The aircraft, which