The World of Aviation

Qantas says it is investigating the use of alternative fire retardants after a foam spill at one of its Brisbane Airport maintenance hangars on Sunday evening. The hangar’s sprinkler system released a reported 22,000 litres of PFOA fire retardant foam, some of which entered a nearby creek. The spill saw the Queensland Government issue a public

Virgin America has become the first operator to take delivery of the Airbus A321neo, with its first aircraft handed over at the manufacturer’s Hamburg, Germany facility on Thursday. The aircraft, configured with a 185-seat, three-class cabin and powered by CFM International LEAP-1A engines, is due to enter service on May 31 between San Francisco and Washington National Airport. It is one of

Cobham Aviation Services will replace Alliance Airlines under a two-year FIFO contract to link the OZ Minerals copper-gold mine at Prominent Hill, 130km south-east of Coober Pedy in remote South Australia. Cobham will use a mix of 99-passenger RJ100 jets and sub-contracted 30-passenger turboprops to meet requirements for the OZ Minerals mine. It is believed

Virgin Australia has turned on its three-month trial of inflight wireless internet aboard one of its Boeing 737s. The first flight in which passengers were able to access the wi-fi system saw 737-800 VH-YIG operate VA908 from Brisbane to Sydney on Thursday morning. Travel news website Australian Business Traveller has been flying onboard the wi-fi equipped aircraft and

Virgin Australia has announced plans to operate twice-weekly between Perth and Canberra during Parliamentary sitting weeks, with the flights to operate on Thursdays and Sundays. Flights for sitting weeks in August, September, October and December 2017 are now on sale, while flights for 2018 will go on sale once the 2018 Parliamentary sitting calendar is released,

Residents of Norfolk Island look set to regain their air links to New Zealand from June, when privately-held Norfolk Island Airlines plans to start flights to Auckland using a leased Boeing 737-300 from Nauru Airlines. The island will lose the only nonstop flight to New Zealand from May 21, when Air New Zealand stops flying