The World of Aviation

Air New Zealand’s inaugural flight from Auckland to Ho Chi Minh City touched down at Vietnam’s largest city on Saturday evening. Ho Chi Minh becomes the airline’s 30th international destination, and joins Houston, Buenos Aires and Beijing as recent additions to the Kiwi flag carrier’s international route map. “This new service is a further expansion of our

Emirates president Sir Tim Clark says his airline is currently more focused on adding extra capacity on its existing Oceania routes operated in conjunction with alliance partner Qantas rather than establishing new services to secondary cities. The Dubai-headquartered carrier serves five Australia points with its own metal – Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney –

Incoming International Air Transport Association (IATA) chief executive and director general Alexandre de Juniac says how the industry deals with government will be a major focus of his leadership. de Juniac, named as Tony Tyler’s successor in April, was officially confirmed at the association’s next boss on the final day of the IATA annual general

The Accident Investigation Board of Norway (AIBN) has released a preliminary report into the fatal accident involving CHC Helicopters H225 (EC225LP), LN-OJF, near Turoy, Norway on April 29, issuing an urgent safety recommendation to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) concerning the type’s main gearbox (MGB). Metallurgical findings during the investigation found features strongly consistent with

Indonesia AirAsia X will cease flights to both Melbourne and Sydney from Denpasar, Bali on September 1. The airline explained in a statement that: “The suspension of these services is part of a network restructuring aimed at improving operational efficiencies at Indonesia AirAsia X.” Given Indonesia AirAsia X’s only other international destination is currently Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,

Air Canada’s first daily flight to Brisbane from Vancouver touched down on Friday morning, marking the first nonstop scheduled service between Canada and Brisbane. The inaugural flight AC35 was operated by Boeing 787-8 C-GHPV, and touched down at 7:07am. The 251-seat 787 made the trans-Pacific journey in 14 hours 14 minutes, having departed Vancouver at 11:45 Wednesday