Gerard Frawley

Philippine Airlines (PAL) will offer nonstop flights to Brisbane from its Manila hub from late March with Airbus A340-300s. The new three times weekly service begins on March 27 2018 and replaces the current one-stop option via Darwin with Airbus A320 narrowbodies. It will increase to four flights a week from May 1 2018, PAL

The NSW Government has officially opened the NSW Ambulance and Toll Rescue Helicopter Base at Bankstown Airport. Premier Gladys Berejiklian joined representatives from Toll Group and the NSW Air Ambulance to cut the ribbon on the facility, which has been providing patient rescue, retrieval and treatment services in Sydney for past 12 months, on January

Qantas’s Network Aviation subsidiary will operate Airbus A320 narrowbodies on intra-Western Australia charter services, taking over some flying currently operated by Boeing 737-800s. The two A320s are being sourced from the Jetstar fleet and are expected to start flying with Network Aviation from April, Qantas said in a statement to Australian Aviation. Jetstar’s A320s are

Qantas’s third Boeing 787-9 has arrived in Australia, touching down in Melbourne on Wednesday after its delivery flight from Boeing’s Everett facility just outside Seattle. The aircraft, VH-ZNC, took off from Paine Field as QF6026 just after 1230 local time on Tuesday and landed at Tullamarine just before midnight on Wednesday following its 16-hour journey

Aviation Australia has opened enrolments for maintenance training diplomas in Western Australia under a state government scheme. The company said it had been awarded a contract from WA’s Department of Training and Workforce Development (DTWD) to offer a nationally recognised aircraft maintenance course across the state. The DTWD is subsidising the courses as part of

Qantas has promoted Olivia Wirth to chief executive of the company’s loyalty business, filling a vacancy created by the departure of Jayne Hrdlicka in mid-December 2017. Wirth, will assume her new role as Qantas Loyalty chief executive on February 12 2018, the company said on Wednesday. The appointment follows the resignation of Jayne Hrdlicka in