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Air Niugini will send its engineering cadets to Cairns for two years of on-the-job training as part of a new partnership with Hawker Pacific and Aviation Australia. The new initiative, due to be launched on Friday, has Air Niugini engineering cadets working out of Hawker Pacific’s maintenance facility at Cairns Airport and receiving training from
Two Jetstar Airbus A320s are out of service after being doused with foam when a fire suppression system triggered inside a maintenance hangar at Newcastle Airport. The two narrowbodies – VH-VQW and VH-VQC – were inside the hangar when the fire system tripped on April 23 and filled the hangar with foam. This content is
Air New Zealand has chosen the Pratt & Whitney PurePower PW1100G-JM engine for its order of 13 Airbus A320neo and A321neo aircraft due for delivery from 2017. The geared turbofan engines will be maintained at the Christchurch Engine Centre, a joint-venture between Air NZ and Pratt & Whitney that was established 15 years ago and
South Australia’s aviation industry has received a second blow in April with Alliance Aviation Services to outsource heavy maintenance work to Europe. Alliance, which is mainly a fly-in/fly-out and charter operator, said on Tuesday it would send its Fokker fleet to Austrian Technik Bratislava for its regular heavy maintenance checks. This content is available exclusively to Australian
Tigerair Australia’s fleet of Airbus A320s will have some component maintenance work completed at Air New Zealand’s Auckland engineering facility as a result of a new agreement between the Kiwi carrier and AJW Group. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article,
Cobham Aviation Services says it expects to suffer some job losses from Qantas’s decision to bring the heavy maintenance of its Boeing 717 fleet in-house. Qantas said on Friday it was establishing a heavy maintenance base for its 18 717s in Canberra, which was due to open in October. This content is available exclusively to
