David Eyre
In an article in The West Australian, Geoffrey Thomas reported that according to airline sources, Scoot Airlines (Singapore) and Tigerair Mandala (Indonesia) have applied for flight slots into Perth from 1...
Month: August 2013
26 August 2013 © David Eyre HNZ Australia loses DFES firefighting contract HNZ Australia’s firefighting contract for the use of Eurocopter AS350B3 Squirrels has not been renewed by the...
14 August 2013 © David Eyre Qantas today announced that it will operate a new seasonal Auckland-Perth twice-weekly A330 service from 6 December 2013 to 1 February 2014. The...
Updated 14 Aug 2013 © David Eyre AirAsia X From 24 November 2013, the Kuala Lumpur / Perth A330 service increases to twice daily (increasing services increases from 7 to...
Philippine Airlines is to cease operating their four-weekly Manila – Darwin – Perth service from 3 September 2013. The PR219/PR220 service which was only launched in June 2013, uses...
From Thursday 22 August 2013, Airservices Australia will commence a 12-month trial of a modified flight path for runway 03 arrivals approaching from the north, in an effort to...
The City of Perth council has commenced the process to develop a permanent commercial helipad in Perth’s central business district, on the Swan River. The council last night passed...
Air New Zealand revealed in June 2013 that its new fleet of Boeing 787-9 aircraft will fly to the destinations of Shanghai, Tokyo, Perth, Honolulu and Papeete. Air...
AirAsia X plans to increase its flights to Australian capitals, including additional flights to Perth. The airline plans to have twice daily flights between Kuala Lumpur and Perth, increasing...
Virgin Australia took delivery of its 100th Boeing 737 aircraft with the arrival in Brisbane on 26 July 2013 of VH-YFR “Scamander Beach”, with the aircraft wearing a ‘100th...
© David Eyre The Aircraft Noise Ombudsman published a report in October 2012 regarding a proposal that aircraft taking off from Perth Airport should use the full length of...
Airbus has delivered its 8,000th aircraft, a sharklet-equipped Airbus A320 for Indonesia AirAsia, registered PK-AZF (MSN 5706, ex F-WWDC). The aircraft departed Toulouse, France on 3 August 2013, and...
Malaysia Airlines has announced that it will increase its current once weekly Kota Kinabalu service to twice weekly from 30 October 2013. The service uses Boeing 737-800 aircraft. The...
Greg Meechan has reported that following the takeover of Skywest Airlines by Virgin Australia and its renaming as Virgin Australia Regional Airlines, on Wednesday 31 July 2013, the last...
1 August 2013 © David Eyre As reported in AviationWA on 19 January 2013, Channel Ten News JetRanger helicopter VH-ZMN crashed at Baskerville as it was filming a truck...
