A Sydney travel agent has spoken out about the treatment of passengers following an Etihad diversion to Jakarta, describing screaming onboard, hours of confusion at the airport and questions over the airline’s handling of compensation claims. Etihad flight EY455 was travelling from Sydney to Abu Dhabi on 30 July when it diverted to Jakarta due […]
Sydney Airport is set to welcome its newest Chinese carrier, with Shenzhen Airlines launching its inaugural four-times-weekly service between Shenzhen and Sydney on 14 December 2026 – further strengthening connectivity between Australia and China. The new service will operate four times per week using an Airbus A330-300, adding approximately 130,000 seats annually and supporting an […]
Indonesian carrier TransNusa has launched its maiden nonstop service between Bali and Phuket, cutting what was previously a lengthy multi-leg journey down to a four-hour flight. Flight 8B 541 departed I Gusti Ngurah Rai International Airport on Wednesday at 11.30am, arriving at Phuket International Airport at 2.35pm. The return service, 8B 542, departs Phuket at […]
EgyptAir is Sydney Airport’s newest airline, with plans to launch a new service connecting Cairo, Singapore and Sydney from 2027 – creating a new air link between Australia and Egypt. The proposed service will be the first direct link between Sydney and Cairo via Singapore, with Egypt Sydney Airport’s largest unserved market in Africa for […]
QantasLink’s first Embraer E190, VH-E9A, has landed in Perth, marking a major milestone in the airline’s fleet renewal program for its Western Australian resources charter operations. The aircraft undertook a 20-hour journey from Norwich in the United Kingdom, with stops in Bulgaria, Tajikistan, India, Malaysia and Broome before touching down in Perth this morning. The […]
There are currently delays averaging nearly 90 minutes at Miami International Airport after an Amazon cargo plane overshot the runway and landed on a road. Five people were killed, and five more injured, after an Amazon Prime cargo plane travelling from Puerto Rico overshot the runway, hitting cars and later catching fire. The accident happened […]
Melbourne Airport will open new public pick up and drop off zones for terminals 1, 2 and 3 on October 6 – the biggest change to the airport’s road network since it opened in 1970. The new free drop off zone on level 3 of the T123 Transport Hub will offer significantly more space than […]
Queensland aviation company Machjet International has added a second Cessna Citation CJ4 to its fleet, giving it two of only three CJ4 aircraft currently operating in Australia. The new aircraft, VH-IPY, has arrived at Machjet’s Sunshine Coast Airport base and joins the existing CJ4, VH-PIY, boosting the company’s private charter capacity in response to growing […]
Newcastle Airport has capped off a landmark year with record passenger numbers, days after being named Australia’s Airport of the Year. The airport carried 1,300,775 passengers in FY26 – surpassing 1.3 million for the first time and marking 10 per cent growth on the previous year. Newcastle Airport Chair Samantha Martin-Williams said the milestone reflected […]
International flight searches to Paris are up 11 per cent year-on-year and bookings have risen 5 per cent as Celine Dion prepares for her first full concert run in more than six years, according to new data from Amadeus Travel Intelligence. Dion’s 16-date Paris residency runs from 12 September to 17 October, and the data, […]