The World of Aviation

Auckland International Airport Limited announced on November 30 that its NZ$125m bond issue closed fully subscribed. “Auckland Airport is extremely pleased with the success of this issue,” said chief financial officer Simon Robertson. “It allows us to extend our maturity profile and demonstrates again that there is strong appetite from New Zealand investors for bonds

Transport Minister Anthony Albanese has announced that he is planning to meet with the European Commissioner for Transport Antonio Tajini in Rome on November 30 to progress on reaching an open skies agreement with the European Union, as well as setting a global framework for managing the aviation industry’s carbon emissions. Minister Albanese said that

International passenger traffic to and from Australia during September jumped 11.3 per cent during September, making it the largest increase in a month since March 2005. Newly released statistics from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show that 2.084 million passengers travelled internationally during September. This was helped by a 7.3 per cent

An MD-11 Freighter operated by Avient Aviation crashed shortly after departing from Shanghai Pudong International Airport on the morning of November 28. The Zimbabwean registered aircraft was departing on a flight to Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, when it crashed, with some reports indicating that the aircraft may have been overloaded. Reports claim that of the seven on

MAp Airports Limited (formerly Macquarie Airports) has said that it would be interested in acquiring Qantas’s Terminal 3 at Sydney Airport if it was put up for sale. “Sydney Airport, with the right parameters, would look at T3 if the opportunity arose,” CEO Kerrie Mather told the Australian Financial Review. MAp holds a 74 per

The RAAF ceased all DHC-4 Caribou operations today (November 27) with the delivery of the final aircraft, A4-140, to Canberra, where it was handed over to the Australian War Memorial. The final flight follows the delivery of another Caribou to the RAAF Museum at Point Cook on November 26, and the relocation of the remaining