UPDATE – An Australian start-up budget carrier, Bonza, has stated its aim to begin operations in 2022, as the country moves forward with plans to open up its state and national borders. News reports indicate the company is backed by…
The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia (BARA) told The Australian newspaper the government’s decision to reduce the number of overseas arrivals allowed entry to the country means up to a third of all international flights to Sydney would have…
Australia has been struggling to get airborne again. The pandemic hit hard and the reaction was (like many places) overdone. Australia and New Zealand created one of the first travel bubbles. That too has been a struggle. Qantas recently pushed…
Shannon Wells is Managing Director at Airlines of Tasmania. The location of the island of Tasmania provides excellent scope for pilot training and tourist flights using GA-sized aircraft. Shannon talks about his operation, dealing with Australia’s Covid craziness and the…
We have developed a data model showing Australian international airline and market activities, starting 2010 through the most recent published year, 2018. We plan to update the model when new data is provided. The model allows a user to select…
While Fokker 100 and Fokker 70 fleets have been dwindling all over the World (see our report on TAP’s last Fokker 100 flight), a small Australian airline can’t get enough of them. Brisbane-based Alliance Airlines is already the World’s largest…