Australia Pacific

Fiji Airways, the flag carrier of Fiji, has received its first Boeing 737 MAX 8. The brand new aircraft is registered as DQ-FAB and named ‘Island of Kadavu‘. The Fiji-based airline is … [read more]

Air New Zealand has started its new service between Auckland and Chicago on Friday. With a flight time of approximately 15 hours northbound and just over 16 hours southbound, the new connection … [read more]

A Boeing 737 Large Aerial Tanker (LAT) has been used for fire fighting purposes for the first time. The modified 737, named Gaia, was used in Australia by the New South Wales … [read more]

Air New Zealand has received its first Airbus A321neo. The aircraft, registered as ZK-NNA, was handed over to the flag carrier of New Zealand on Wednesday. A few days later, on Friday, … [read more]

Qantas and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines have announced a new codeshare agreement creating new options for customers traveling between Australia and Europe. Qantas will add its code on KLM’s daily flights between … [read more]

A Boeing 737-800 operated by Papua New Guinean flag-carrier Air Niugini has landed in the ocean, short of the runway at Chuuk Airport on the Micronesian island of Weno. 47 people were on … [read more]

After nearly 19 years of operations for Qantas, the Boeing 747-400 named “Fraser Island” went into the well-deserved retirement. The aircraft was ferried from Los Angeles to the Mojave Desert on Tuesday. … [read more]