The World of Aviation

Qantas has announced it has signed a formal agreement to purchase Perth based fly-in/fly-out resource contract charter operator Network Aviation, which is to become a fully owned Qantas subsidiary. “We have reached agreement with the owners of Network Aviation to purchase the business. It presents strong growth opportunities and we will immediately look at significantly

Strategic Airlines has announced plans to operate new Brisbane-Denpasar nonstop Airbus A330 services from March 19. Strategic plans to operate twice weekly flights on the route, departing Brisbane on Wednesdays and Saturdays, operated by its A330-200, which is configured in a two class 30 business, 243 economy class configuration. Strategic already flies between Brisbane and

The federal government has requested the Productivity Commission inquire into pricing, investment and services at Australia’s major airports and the regulatory regime under which they operate. “The government has asked the Productivity Commission to assess the effectiveness of current economic regulation of airports in supporting ongoing investment in aviation infrastructure while deterring potential abuses of

SpiceJet of India has ordered 15 Bombardier Q400s, and optioned 15. “As India’s most preferred low fare airline, we are focused on catering to these markets which require an aircraft that could increase the reach to over 60 airports that could not be served by the larger jets and establishing our footprint in these markets,”

Lufthansa has signed an order for eight additional Embraer E-195s, to supplement the 30 E-190s and E-195s ordered in June 2007. Lufthansa Regional carriers Augsburg Airways, Air Dolomiti and CityLine all operate E-Jets on Lufthansa’s behalf.

Checks ordered by the ATSB to look for the fault suspected of causing the QF32 uncontained engine failure have discovered a further three affected Trent 900 engines, one of which was fitted to a yet to be delivered Qantas A380. “Three engines failed the inspection and were removed from service for further examination,” the ATSB