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Qantas’s engineering facility at Brisbane Airport has completed the first of three heavy checks on Hawaiian Airlines’ Airbus A330-200 fleet. The first Hawaiian aircraft to undergo its H check, N380HA, arrived in Brisbane from Honolulu on March 27 as HA9981. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue
Virgin Australia will send its Boeing 737 fleet to the United States for engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) as part of a 13-year agreement with alliance partner Delta Air Lines. The MRO work on the 737’s CFM57-7B engines will be conducted by Delta TechOps’ facilities in Atlanta and Minneapolis/St Paul, Virgin said in a
Tigerair Australia has credited BAE Systems Australia for helping the low-cost carrier improve on-time performance and reduce cancellations over the past two years. In October 2013, BAE Systems signed its first non-military engineering support contract in Australia to provide base maintenance services for Tigerair’s fleet of Airbus A320s. This content is available exclusively to Australian
Townsville-based Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) King Air aircraft will undergo scheduled maintenance with Hawker Pacific following the shutdown of Regional Express-owned local aircraft maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) company Aviex last week. An RFDS Queensland spokesperson told Australian Aviation on Tuesday the organisation had managed to transition its maintenance work at Townsville from Aviex to Hawker
Alliance Aviation Services is closing its Brisbane heavy maintenance base and will send its all-Fokker fleet to Europe for their regular heavy checks as part of cost-saving measures. The heavy maintenance checks will be undertaken at Lufthansa subsidiary Austrian Technik Bratislava, which started working on Alliance aircraft in April when the company ended heavy maintenance
One of the two Jetstar Airbus A320s damaged when a fire suppression system triggered inside a maintenance hangar at Newcastle Airport is back in the air. The two narrowbodies – VH-VQW and VH-VQC – were inside the hangar when the fire system tripped on April 23, filling the facility with foam. This content is available exclusively
