The World of Aviation

Recovery of the Schiebel Camcopter S-100 that crashed on March 27 was expected to begin on Wednesday. Accessing the crash site located in Beecroft Air Weapons Range is dependent on the area being clear of unexploded munitions, but the ‘all clear’ is anticipated to be given today, a Defence spokesperson told sister publication Australian Defence Business Review. Meanwhile,

Hobart Airport is on the lookout for a new chief executive following the resignation of Rod Parry after seven years at the helm. Parry will leave as chief executive at the end of July, Hobart Airport said in a statement on March 14. He said it was the right time to hand over the reins

Air New Zealand says its new Airbus A320neos and A321neos due for delivery from 2018 will feature wider seats than on the airline’s current narrowbody fleet. The Star Alliance member and Virgin Australia alliance partner says window and aisle seats have been designed one centimetre wider than those on A320s that are flown internationally, while

Virgin Australia has reopened its long-haul base at Melbourne Tullamarine with the resumption of nonstop flights to Los Angeles. Flight VA23, operated by Boeing 777-300ER VH-VPF, took off from Melbourne at about 1145 local time on Tuesday and was scheduled to land at Los Angeles Airport about 14 hours later. Virgin consolidated its long-haul Boeing

Hawker Pacific’s Singapore workshop has been named as an authorised service centre for two Embraer regional jets. The aircraft sales and support company’s manufacturing facility at Singapore’s Seletar Airport will provide maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) services for Embraer’s ERJ 135 and ERJ 145 commercial jets. The move builds on Hawker Pacific’s existing work with the

Fiji Airways is boosting capacity to San Francisco in response to demand. The airline launched nonstop flights between Nadi and San Francisco in June 2016, initially as a twice-weekly seasonal service with Airbus A330 equipment that operated in the months of June, July, August, December 2016 and January 2017. It will now serve San Francisco