Regional Express to purchase airport hangar

Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments  Wagga Wagga City Council and Regional Express (Rex) has announced that they have reached a Sale of Assets Agreement in relation to the hangar at the Wagga Wagga Regional Airport.  The agreement will see Rex purchase the hanger for $2.8M.  The hangar was built by aircraft painting and refurbishment … Read more

New links in the Northern Pacific

Nauru Airlines and Solomon Airlines have joined forces to promote new passenger and cargo links to the northern Pacific. Effective 01 January 2016, Nauru Airlines northbound flights operating via Honiara every Friday will allow travellers seamless connections on ‘same plane’ services through to Nauru, Tarawa, Majuro, Kosrae, Pohnpei and Chuuk. Southbound flights operational every Sunday … Read more

Fiji Airways to launch direct twice-weekly flights to San Francisco

Fiji Airways has announced plans to commence seasonal twice-weekly direct services from San Francisco to Nadi, Fiji this summer and next December starting June 16th, 2016. The flights will operate from San Francisco International Airport (SFO) to Fiji (NAN) on Thursdays and Sundays, with flight times to provide easy connectivity within Fiji, to Australia, New Zealand, … Read more

Solomon Islands and Vanuatu agree on new air service agreement

Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments The Solomon Islands and Vanuatu have reached agreement for a new Air Service Agreement (ASA) and Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the two countries. The successful agreement follows a visit this week by a senior Vanuatu delegation led by Director of Civil Aviation Vanuatu (CAAV), Joseph Niel accompanied by … Read more

Qantas flying high with forecast for record profit

The Qantas Group announced that it expects to report an Underlying Profit Before Tax1 in the range of $875 million to $925 million for the first six months of financial year 2016. The expected $875 million to $925 million range represents a significant improvement in underlying earnings for the Qantas Group, and compares to an … Read more

Virgin Australia and Delta Air Lines finalise long-term engine maintenance contract

Virgin Australia announced that Delta Air Lines’ maintenance division, Delta TechOps, will perform engine maintenance, repair and overhaul services for the airline’s Boeing 737 Next Generation fleet.   The new 13-year CFM56-7B engine maintenance contract provides the opportunity for both carriers, who are strategic alliance partners, to collaborate on aircraft engineering, reliability and other maintenance-related … Read more

Fiji Airways appoints new Chairman and Director

Fiji Airways Group shareholders today announced changes to the company’s Board of Directors following its Annual General Meeting, with a new Chairman and Director appointed. Incumbent Chairman Mr. Nalin Patel and Director Mr. Stefan Pichler were both farewelled by the shareholders, and replaced on the Board by Mr. Rajesh Punja, Director of the Punja Group … Read more

Rex selected as operator for Western Australian routes

Share Tweet Share Share Email Comments The Western Australian (WA) Government has today announced Regional Express (Rex) as the operator of two routes in its review of regulated Regular Public Transport (RPT) air services in the state. This confers on Rex the sole right to operate on these routes for the next five years beginning … Read more