The World of Aviation

Qantas Airbus A380 VH-OQH has made its debut wearing special decals in support Qantas’s sponsorship of the Australian Rugby Union team. The aircraft took off on its first flight in the special livery, which features the Qantas kangaroo wearing a Wallabies gold jersey and the legend ‘Go Wallabies” on the side, when it departed Sydney for Dallas Fort Worth operating

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The capacity war between Qantas and Virgin Australia may have cooled, but things are heating up in the two airlines’ attempts to lure business travellers on the east-west trek. Just a week after Virgin launched its new “The Business” business class seat on board its Airbus A330-200s that fly between Perth and Australia’s east coast

Tigerair Australia will operate three times weekly flights between Melbourne and Coffs Harbour from December 9. The new flights will depart Melbourne at 9:05 am Mondays and Wednesdays and at 08:45 am on Fridays, returning from Coffs Harbour at 11:25 am and 11:05 am respectively, adding 1,080 seats a week to the north coast NSW regional centre.

Flight Centre says there are encouraging signs the Australian travel market is picking up, particularly for leisure travellers. The travel agency group, which has battled a sluggish travel market in Australia in recent times, made the observation in its 2014/15 full year results published on Thursday. “In Australia, consumer confidence remains relatively subdued but we

Space for rail links will be included in the design plans for the second Sydney airport to be built at Badgerys Creek in Western Sydney, Deputy Prime Minister Warren Truss has confirmed. Although buses are expected to be the only form of public transit on offer when the airport opens some time in the mid-2020s,