The A350-1000ULR MSN707, which flew from Airbus’ plant in Toulouse to Melbourne last week, touched down from the return journey on 28 July after 24 hours and 24 minutes in the air, covering a total distance of 23,075 kilometres.
On this week’s Australian Aviation Podcast, Jake and David unpack the crate expectations being placed on Australia’s secondary airports as freight operations ramp up at WSI and Avalon.
The carrier, which recently moved to year-round Perth services, currently flies three times per week, but will move to seven over the summer, bringing an extra 12,600 inbound seats on board its 787-9 Dreamliners. In total, 55,200 seats will be availabl…
Seaweed composing the Great Atlantic Sargassum Belt hit near-record levels in June 2026, with the Caribbean Sea and Gulf of America both reaching all-time highs.
The rules, to come into effect on 29 September, will provide additional options for certification of RPAs heavier than 150kg, beyond the current experimental and restricted certificates.
DB Cargo Automotive plans to transport more than 80,000 Stellantis vehicles by rail in 2026, up from over 50,000 last year. The revised network concentrates traffic on high-volume European corridors and regular shuttle services.
The lunar surface has long been a subject of intense scientific study, but recent advancements in NASA resource extraction technology have ignited a firestorm of speculation regarding what actually lies beneath the moon’s regolith. While official narr…
The two main tubes of the Brenner Base Tunnel have been connected beneath the Austrian–Italian border. The railway is expected to shift more Alpine freight from road to rail after opening.
Italian rail freight traffic fell sharply in the first half of 2026 as infrastructure works linked to Italy’s EU-funded recovery programme disrupted network availability, raising the risk that temporary construction constraints become permanent traffic…