The World of Aviation

The next Pacific International Maritime Exposition is due to be held in Sydney on October 6-8, 2015, at the Sydney Exhibition Centre @ Glebe Island. “The change in dates from the traditional January-February timeslot is a result of the success of Pacific 2013, which was held in October 2013 to coincide with the Royal Australian

Qantas this week is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its commencement of first trans-Pacific services between Australia and the USA. The first service – on May 15 1954 – was operated by a Lockheed Super Constellation which flew from Sydney to San Francisco via Fiji, Canton Island and Hawaii, before proceeding on to Vancouver. The

China Southern has scheduled the return of the Airbus A380 services to Sydney over the coming summer months. According to updated schedules loaded into travel booking systems, the will A380 operate the overnight flight from Guangzhou before turning around for a daytime departure out of Sydney. The superjumbo looks set to take over one of

Airlines added an extra 2.8 million seats into and out of Australia in 2013. However, the market was unable to absorb the 7.1 per cent increase in available seats to 42.1 million, with the number of passengers carried last year up 5.9 per cent to 31.3 million. The data from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport

Airfares for the cheapest economy tickets fell to their lowest levels in more than three years in May. The Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics’ monthly measure of domestic airfares index for “best discount” tickets fares fell sharply to 49.8 points in May, from 65.5 points in April. It was the lowest reading since January

Franco-Italian regional turboprop manufacturer ATR has recorded 100 sales for its ATR-42 and ATR-72 models in just the first four months of 2014. The company says its products currently account for 80 per cent of all regional aircraft sales up to 90-seats announced to date this year, and already exceeds the 89 total sales it logged