The sustainment contract will create over 75 new jobs in Nowra at Sikorsky Australia’s maintenance and logistics support facility, building on its existing workforce of 200.
The regional Queensland airline, which was last year purchased by global aviation firm Avia Solutions Group, received its first A319, registered VH-L7A, in mid-December. Its second – to be registered VH-L7C – arrived at the end of last month.
The two Sydney-bound flights from Melbourne and Brisbane on Friday were crewed entirely by LGBTQIA+ staff members and allies, including both flight and cabin crews, and featured mid-air DJ entertainment and drag performances.
Across Australia, a combination of cost-of-living pressures and a reduction in business travel has led to domestic travel stagnating in the last few years.
Labor last year put on hold plans to buy a fourth squadron of F-35s and said it would instead redirect some of that investment towards long-range missiles.
Thirteen workers from Chiltern Railways took part in an overnight sleepout at London Marylebone station yesterday (Thursday 27 February), raising over five thousand pounds for the charity Railway Children.
Southern Launch, which operates the site, confirmed Varda’s W-2 spacecraft touched down using a parachute at 1:02 am local time and was monitored on the way down with tracking telescopes.
The news caps a remarkable turnaround that saw Rex obtain some of Virgin’s leased aircraft when it entered administration in 2020, before the larger carrier took them back when the same fate befell the regional carrier last year.
The report details the events of the crash and the subsequent escape by four passengers on board the Cessna Caravan VH-WTY, which was registered to Swan River Seaplanes, after it hit the water off Thomson Bay on 7 January. Two other passengers, as well…
The Flying Kangaroo will give a cabin facelift to 42 737s, including new business and economy seats, larger overhead lockers, and new carpets, sidewalls, and mood lighting. The announcement comes shortly after its first A321XLR, VH-OGA “Great Ocean Roa…