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Strategic Airlines has lodged an application with the International Air Services Commission (IASC) seeking an allocation of unlimited capacity on the Indonesia route to allow it to launch flights from Karratha and Port Hedland to Denpasar (Bali). In its application to the IASC, Strategic says that it intends to operate the services from August 2010

Airservices Australia says that safety in the skies over Tasmania has increased with the commissioning of Australia’s first Wide Area Multilateration (WAM) radar system, which provides enhanced en route surveillance of air traffic across Tasmania at Launceston Airport and down to the surface at Hobart for the first time. The $6 million system uses 14

Australian Cessna dealer Aeromil Pacific has announced that a Citation XLS+ will commence an Australian sales tour from June 28. The XLS+ typically seats eight passengers, with a cruise speed of 440 KTAS at 31,000ft and a range of 1858nm. The aircraft is powered by two Pratt & Whitney PW545C engines, which produce 18.32kN of

Parliament has passed legislation which will increase the excise on aviation fuel which will increase funding to CASA. The rise in excise to 3.556 cents per litre will provide an additional $89.9 million annually to CASA. The government says that this will allow it to employ an additional 97 safety specialists, safety analysts and airworthiness

Vietnam Airlines has switched an order for 16 Boeing 787-8s to the larger -9 model, citing the unexpected performance limitations of the -8. “The -8 doesn’t meet the performance guarantee as they told me,” Vietnam Airlines CEO Pham Ngoc Minh told Flightglobal during a meeting of the SkyTeam alliance in New York. “We found the

Passenger and freight traffic continued its strong upward trend through May, according to statistics released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines (AAPA). Passenger numbers for the month increased by 17.6 per cent compared to the same time last year, pushing revenue passenger kilometres (RPKs) up by 14.6 per cent. Capacity growth of 3.3 per