David Eyre
16 December 2011: The Perth Airport Viewing Area is now officially open to the public, and it is FREE! In recognition of the contribution made by the Aviation...
Year: 2011
23 October 2011 (UPDATED 15 December 2011) – Surf Life Saving WA has taken delivery of a $2 million Agusta Westland A119 Koala rescue and beach patrol helicopter, registered...
7 December 2011 © David Eyre: Avation Leasing has ordered five more ATR72s, which will be leased to Skywest and operated on behalf of Virgin Australia in the Virgin...
7 December 2011 © David Eyre: Pacific Blue and V Australia were officially placed under the single Virgin Australia banner today, and Polynesian Blue changed its name to Virgin...
2 December 2011: Skywest today took delivery of their 4th ATR72-500, VH-FVM “Woolamai Beach” (cn 979). The aircraft arrived on Perth Airport’s runway 03 at 16:19 using callsign “Southern...
30 November 2011 – Network Aviation has broken up their spares ship Fokker 100, VH-NHF. The aircraft was originally ordered by US Air, and first flew in their colours...
25 November 2011: Perth-based aviation company AVWest is about to take delivery of its new Viking Air DHC-6 Twin Otter 400, VH-ZZH (construction number 851, test reg C-FUVA). The...
24 November 2011: South African Airways’ fleet of Airbus A340-200 aircraft are being disposed of, as the airline takes delivery of new A330-200s. The A340-200s are leased from GMT...
16 November 2011 (UPDATED 18 November 2011): On 3 July 2012, Qatar Airways will commence services from Doha (Qatar) to Perth using Airbus A330-200s, initially three times per week....
15 November 2011: A report in The Australian newspaper states that 27% of passengers passing through Perth’s major airline domestic terminals are Fly-In, Fly-Out (FIFO) workers travelling to mining...
13 November 2011: Emirates has ordered 50 additional Boeing 777-300ERs plus 20 options at the Dubai Air Show, worth $18 billion (or $26 billion including options), with delivery commencing...
ABOVE: Airbus A340 variants which have operated (and in most cases still operate) regular scheduled services to and from Perth: Air Mauritius A340-300X Cathay Pacific A340-300X Emirates A340-300 &...
Perth, 10 November 2011 Following on from our earlier news articles in April and August 2011, QantasLink (Sunstate Airlines) Perth division has taken delivery of the first of its ...
SEE MORE PHOTOS ON OUR AIRCRAFT PHOTOS -NOV 2011 PAGE 9 November 2011: China Southern Airlines started their first scheduled service to Perth today, operating from Beijing via Guangzhou...
27 October 2011 (UPDATED 8 NOVEMBER 2011): Royal Brunei Airlines operated their last passenger service to and from Perth on 27th October 2011, when Airbus A320-232 V8-RBT operated flight...
