The World of Aviation

Jetstar has confirmed it will be moving in to the new Terminal 4 at Melbourne Airport from November 10. The low-cost carrier will join Tigerair Australia at Tullamarine’s newest terminal. Jetstar said in a statement on its website although most domestic flights would move to Terminal 4, services with flight numbers between JQ1 and JQ399 would stay at Terminal

Jetstar has secured the necessary traffic rights to begin nonstop flights from the Gold Coast to Wuhan due to take off in late September. Australia’s International Air Services Commission (IASC) has approved the application from Jetstar’s parent company Qantas for “unlimited passenger capacity between points in Australia other than Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, and

Award-winning Australian actor Hugh Jackman has been named as a Qantas “global ambassador”. The partnership between the Flying Kangaroo and the star of the X-Men movie franchise will involve promotional work with the airline and collaboration on community projects in Australia, Qantas said on Tuesday. “I travel a lot and like all Aussies, I get

Air New Zealand has retired its iconic Boeing 737-300 aircraft, with the final flight, NZ557 between Auckland and Christchurch, operated by ZK-NGI on September 6. It closed a chapter of domestic and trans-Tasman aviation that the airline has been marking, well aware of the historic nature of these aircraft and the relationship New Zealanders have with

A Lockheed Martin-led teaming will provide the RAAF’s new Pilot Training System operating 49 Pilatus PC-21 training aircaft from RAAF Base East Sale in Victoria and Pearce in Western Australia. Defence Minister Kevin Andrews made the long-anticipated announcement that the ‘Team 21’ consortium of Lockheed Martin, Pilatus and Hawker Pacific had been selected as preferred tenderer for the

French investigators have confirmed the wing flaperon found on Reunion Island belongs to missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370. While Malaysia Prime Minister Najib Razak said on August 6 an international team of experts had “conclusively confirmed” the wing flaperon that washed up on the beach at Reunion Island did belong to the Boeing 777-200ER that