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Air New Zealand adding extra regional flights following Jetstar’s withdrawal
/Air New Zealand says it will operate extra flights in December 2019 on five regional routes that Jetstar is withdrawing from at the end of November. The airline said on Thursday it had scheduled an additional 253 flights throughout the month of December on Auckland-Napier, Auckland-Nelson, Auckland-New Plymouth and Auckland-Palmerston North, as well as between
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Mitsubishi Aircraft to delay SpaceJet delivery once again
/Tokyo, Japan – Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation reportedly seeks to delay delivery of its SpaceJet for six months.
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Fire Signs – Climate Change Keeps Kestrel on Their Toes
/When it comes to debate over climate change, you won’t find Ray Cronin lining up with the sceptics. As boss of specialist aviation group Kestrel, he has seen first hand how the influence of climate change has grown year by year to produce what is one of the few true growth ‘industries” in the helicopter sector: fighting fires.
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RAAF P-8A Arrives in the Middle East
/A RAAF P-8A Poseidon maritime surveillance aircraft has arrived in the Middle East to conduct operations in support of the International Maritime Security Construct (IMSC).
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From the archives: When Qantas flew Perth to London in the longest hop
/To mark the first of three Project Sunrise nonstop research flights from New York to Sydney, this story from the Australian Aviation archives comes from May 2018, when Gerard Frawley wrote about the experience of being on Qantas’s inaugural Perth-London Heathrow nonstop service.
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