The Week in Brief 18 August 2011
Virgin Australia has unveiled its Capital Connect dedicated product for the Sydney-Canberra route. By October there will be up to 10 daily services on the route, with complimentary in-flight food, plus drinks and newspapers at certain times of the day.
Tiger Airways returns to Brisbane today commencing with a daily return afternoon flight from Melbourne which, as of early next week, will be joined by an additional return morning service between Melbourne and Brisbane.
Travel Daily reports that Chilean tourism officials were taken by surprise by yesterday's Qantas announcement that it was abandoning Buenos Aires for Santaiago as its point of entry to South America. Visiting Chilean tourism luminary, Victor Venegas, expressed his delight at the announcement, but also complete surprise. He also pondered just how the relationship between oneworld members Qantas and LAN will fare, given they will now be in competition on the Sydney-Santiago route.
Jetstar CEO Bruce Buchanan will address an American Chamber of Commerce lunch at the Shangri-La Hotel in Sydney on 1 September. Details: www.amcham.com.au/vpLink.aspx?ID=4200&EVENT=000000001972
Boeing has completed all flight tests required for type certification of the B787-8 Dreamliner with Rolls-Royce engines. Flight testing continues for 787s with GE engines and for Boeing test points not related to certification. Video highlights of 787 flight testing can be found at: http://youtu.be/9yRmwGMNuDo.
The Sydney branch of the Royal Aeronautical Society has announced that the 2011 Sir Charles Kingsford Smith Lecture will be presented by Rodney Stiff, managing director of Jabiru Aircraft, at the Society's formal annual dinner at The Lakes Golf Club on Wednesday 30 November.
California-based SpaceX will launch a test flight to the International Space Station in November; the first by private enterprise since NASA closed the space shuttle program last month. The company successfully orbited its Dragon capsule in December last year.
The Air Accident Investigation Bureau of Singapore, on behalf of the ICAO Asia and Pacific Office, will hold a Regional Accident Investigation Workshop in Singapore on 27-28 September. Contact: bryan_siow@mot.gov.sg
latest comments
| 9:09AM |
"I agree the RAAF Base at Richmond would make a perfect location for a Second Airport for Sydney. It would be s..." Lawrence Maltese on RAAF likes Richmond... |
| 8:45AM |
"Well we've now got access to the charges that will apply to GA at Avalon. How about a landing fee of $100 for ..." Editor on Avalon Airport to host Genera... |
