Qantas has announced a significant boost its flights to and from Australia and New Zealand during the upcoming summer travel period. It will see an increase in capacity of up to 20 percent over December and January.

On May 22nd, an Air New Zealand Boeing 777-300er was damaged after it collided with an airbridge while pushing back at Brisbane Airport.

On May 22nd this year, Cathay Pacific announced that they will resume flights to Adelaide from November this year.

On the 16th of May, QantasLink made it’s final flight to Lord Howe Island after over 30 years of servicing the remote destination.

Qantas has announced plans to offer a new non-stop service between Auckland and Adelaide. The airline will fly the route four times per week using a Boeing 737-800, commencing October 31, 2025.

From later this year, Qantas will begin flying between Perth and Auckland, in direct competition with Air New Zealand. Qantas has also added new flights from Perth to Johannesburg, South Africa.

Starting late this year, Emirates will begin flying their brand new Airbus A350s non-stop between Dubai and Adelaide. This route will be Emirates’ first “long haul“ flight for the A350ULR.

Get ready for high-flying action as the Pacific Airshow Gold Coast returns for 2025 this August, the skies over Surfers Paradise will fill with world-class aerobatics and unforgettable beachside excitement.

At the end of March 2025, the southern hemispheres largest airshow, Avalon, Australian Intl. Airshow will race into action with more aircraft on show and more spectators than any previous Avalon airshow.

This afternoon, at around 5:15 PM a light aerobatic plane that was displaying in the Australian International Airshow crashed into the ground. Leaving the pilot in a critical but stable condition.

DC-3, registered as ZK-DAK has now been sold across the ditch to Darwin, Australia. The aircraft will soon head to join ZK-AWP, which has also been sold recently.

In late March this year, the biennial airshow, Avalon International Airshow will return to the skies above Avalon, near Melbourne. The airshow last took to the skies in 2023 after a series of cancellations due to the COVID pandemic.

Recently, Air Chathams has confirmed the sale of its iconic Douglas DC-3, ZK-AWP. The aircraft has now led the country to head to it’s new owners in Darwin.

Yesterday, January 21st, Air Chathams announced that from April this year they will no longer fly between Auckland and Norfolk Island.

After a large 7.3 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Vanuatu on Tuesday afternoon the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) sent five aircraft to deliver aid to the nation.

Midway through 2024, Jetstar announced its first major New Zealand expansion in over a decade. The big move is on track to include five new routes across the Tasman as well as an increase in domestic services across New Zealand.

Virgin Australia’s new partnership with Qatar Airways, including a 25% stake and leased Boeing 777-300ERs, will relaunch its long-haul international flights in mid-2025, marking a major comeback since its pandemic-era halt in 2020.

A Qantas Boeing 737-800 that made an emergency landing in Sydney last Friday could be cleared for flight as early as this week, following extensive engineering work and an investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB).

A 25-year-old man was taken into custody at Sydney Airport after allegedly assaulting a fellow passenger on a flight from Wellington to Sydney.

Qantas has introduced new Economy seats featuring larger entertainment screens across its Airbus A330 fleet, which services international routes to Hong Kong, Singapore, and Tokyo.