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New Qantas baggage limits come into effect
Qantas’s new, more restrictive domestic checked baggage policy came into effect on June 1. The changes for allowances on Qantas and QantasLink domestic services are now as follows (excluding QantasLink flights to/from Lord Howe Island, Olympic Dam and Mount Hotham): Economy: 1 piece (maximum 23kg) Business: 1 piece (maximum 32kg) Qantas Club members 1 piece
Read moreBA takes delivery of 100th Airbus
An A320 delivered on June 1 was British Airways’s 100th single-aisle Airbus aircraft. BA has taken delivery of two A318s, 33 A319s, 48 A320s and 16 A321s since it first became an Airbus operator (via predecessor airline British Caledonian) in 1988.
Read moreAirservices to begin remote tower trial at Alice Springs
/Airservices Australia has signed a contract with Saab to trial remote tower technology (RTT) at Alice Springs from late 2012. The Alice Springs remote tower will be controlled from Adelaide, 1500km to the south, with Airservices Australia acting general manager Air Traffic Control, Mark Rodwell, confident that the evaluation of the new technology will give
Read moreCAE awarded RAAF KC-30A sim training
CAE Australia has been awarded a contract to provide aircrew training and simulator maintenance and support services for the RAAF’s incoming KC-30A tankers. Under contract to Airbus Military, CAE has designed and built the KC-30’s full-flight and mission simulator, plus a KC-30 air refuelling officer part-task trainer and a CAE Simfinity integrated procedures trainer. These
Read moreRex identifies seven vulnerable routes
/ | 3 Comments on Rex identifies seven vulnerable routesRegional Express (Rex) has revealed that it is considering pulling out from no fewer than seven routes in response to rising fuel prices and softening passenger demand. Rex has identified Sydney-Taree; Sydney-Grafton; Sydney-Moruya; Sydney-Bathurst; Melbourne-Griffith; Melbourne-King Island; and Melbourne-Merimbula as markets it is considering withdrawing from, and says it has now begun briefing community stakeholders.
Read moreTiger pulls out of some Avalon routes, shifts to Melbourne
Tiger Airways is to “shortly” move three of its Avalon routes to Melbourne/Tullamarine following a recent network review. With one Avalon based A320 being shifted to Melbourne, flights to Brisbane, Adelaide and the Gold Coast from Avalon will operate instead from Melbourne/Tullamarine. However, Tiger will continue to fly to Sydney and Perth from Avalon, and
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