The World of Aviation

Air Mauritius will add a third weekly flight to Perth from April 1 next year. The additional flight each Friday represents a 50 per cent increase in capacity and complements the existing Wednesday and Sunday schedule. The three services will be operated using an Airbus A330 in a two-class configuration of 24 business class and

Before it has even started services between Honolulu and Brisbane, Hawaiian Airlines is adding capacity between the two cities in response to demand for services between March and May 2013. The airline, which starts flights to Brisbane on November 28, will add 18 flights – or 4,700 seats – to the existing schedule of three

Singapore Airlines will increase to 12 the number of weekly flights to Adelaide From July 4 next year. Operated by Airbus A330s featuring the airline’s latest medium haul business class product, the additional services to Adelaide each Thursday and Sunday means Singapore Airlines will now operate 112 flights a week between Australia and Singapore. Adelaide’s largest

Singapore Airlines has ordered five more Airbus A380s and 20 A350-900s, plus announced plans to transfer its 20 787s on order to low-cost subsidiary Scoot. The new Airbuses are valued at US$7.5 billion at list prices. It is the third A380 order by Singapore Airlines and brings its total commitments for the type to 24,

A Network Aviation Fokker 100 suffered a hard landing at Nifty Aerodrome in the East Pilbara region on October 19. According to the ATSB, the aircraft – VH-NQE – experienced windshear as it approached the airfield during a fly-in/fly-out charter flight from Perth.  The Qantas-owned subsidiary has grounded the aircraft pending further investigation by the

Airbus’s new 74,000 square metre A350 final assembly line (FAL) has been inaugurated by French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault and Airbus president and chief executive officer Fabrice Brégier. Attendees at the official ceremony in Toulouse saw the first flyable aircraft, MSN1, taking shape on the line before its first flight scheduled for mid 2013.  Fuselage