News Briefs From May 2025
MAY 30, 2025: Air New Zealand has released its April 2025 traffic statistics, revealing capacity was down 2.2% compared to April 2024.
Read the stock exchange filing here
MAY 30, 2025: Air Caledonie has delayed plans to shift to Noumea La Tontouta Airport in July due to significant market discontent.
Read the news report here.
MAY 29, 2025: Andre Viljoen will step down as CEO and MD of Fiji Airways in October 2025 after ten years in the role. He will become the CEO of Air Mauritius.
Read the news report here.
MAY 29, 2025: Air Niugini has signed a firm order with Airbus for two more single-aisle A220-100s. This follows an initial order in 2023 for six aircraft.
Read the Airbus press release here
MAY 28, 2025: Australia’s Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says a May 4, 2025, severe turbulence incident onboard a Qantas B737-800 that left a flight attendant injured highlights the importance of effective crew coordination.
You can read the ATSB report here.
MAY 28, 2025: The Australian Federation of Air Pilots (AFAP) has appealed against the finding from the Fair Work Commission that first officers under training, as defined in the Qantas Airways Limited Pilots (Short Haul) Enterprise Agreement 2024 (EA9), are not covered by the Air Pilots Award 2020.
The AFAP appeal is available here.
MAY 23, 2025: Virgin Australia and Boeing have today released a report by Pollination on the challenges and opportunities of an International Book and Claim system for Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF) accounting.
Read the full report here.
MAY 23, 2025: The 79th General Session of the Association of South Pacific Airlines opened in Honiara yesterday with the theme “Enhancing Regional Air Connectivity and Infrastructure."
Read the report here.
MAY 20,2025: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission's latest Domestic Airline Competition Report has found that Australia’s two largest airline groups have both recorded strong financial results for the first half of 2024-25.
MAY 16, 2025: Lincoln Pan, a non-executive director of Regional Express Holdings Limited, trading as Regional Express (REX), has resigned from the board.
Read the Australian Stock Exchange notice here
MAY 14, 2025: The Canadian Transportation Agency has approved an application by Skytraders to operate non-scheduled charter flights between Australia and Canada.
Read the CTA approval here.
MAY 13, 2035: Recently re-elected Australian prime minister, Anthony Albanese, has re-appointed Catherine King as Minister for Infrastructure, Transport, Regional Development and Local Government. Her remit includes Australia's aviation sector.
Read the press release here.
MAY 9, 2025: New Zealand's Whakatāne District Council has declined a request from Air Chathams to financially subsidise the Whakatāne (WHK) - Auckland (AKL) route, with the mayor, Victor Luca, saying it was not up to council to run the airline.
Read the Radio New Zealand story here.
MAY 6, 2025: The Tongan Government, via the Tonga Airports and Port Authority, will take over baggage and cargo management at Tonga's airports to combat drug trafficking. A switch from private contractor to government will involve a six month transition period.
You can read the full newspaper article here.
MAY 6, 2025: Nauru Airlines has reappointed AERgO International as its exclusive general sales agent for the airline's charter services.
Read the full statement here.
MAY 1, 2025: Air New Zealand has issued new 2030 emissions guidance, saying it expects to cut net "well-to-wake" greenhouse gas emissions from jet fuel by 20 - 25% by 2030, from a 2019 baseline.
You can read the full announcement here.
