Qantas and Virgin Blue have rejected Adelaide airport's invitation to use tankers to refuel their planes at the new domestic terminal while contractors battle to clean its contaminated underground fuel system.

Adelaide's new airport terminal is virtually empty and losing half a million dollars a week. Michelle Wiese Bockmann asks who's to blame.

Passengers on board a 180-seater Delhi-Srinagar Air Sahara airliner had a narrow escape when the plane's wing grazed a parked Air India aircraft after landing at the International airport here today, airport authorities said.

Air Canada Sunday announced that effective June 16, 2006 it will introduce non-stop service between Toronto and Shanghai.

Wellington Airport was fully operational on Monday after fog cancelled four international flights to Australia earlier in the morning, and closed the airport for most of Sunday.

The Deputy Director of the General Administration of Civil Aviation of China, Yang Guoqing met the president of Lufthansa Group, Wolfgang Mayrhuber and other delegates on Jan 13th this year. Both sides have discussed the matters including the further promotion of aviation transportation relationship between China and German, the request in relation to Jade Cargo International's air traffic rights, and the possibility to further strengthen the technical exchange and training cooperation between Lufthansa and CAAC.(Translation: CARNOC - Mengping Tao)

When Koen Rooijmans came to run the newly privatised Brisbane Airport in 1997, he saw one advantage the airport had over other Australian airports -- land.

Austrian Airlines Group is eyeing service to new destinations in Siberia."We are currently studying whether to start services from Vienna to Tjumen and Celyabinsk. We also hope to get permission to operate regular services to Kazakhstan during 2006," CCO Josef Burger told ATWOnline. In addition, Austrian plans to add 19 weekly frequencies to Eastern European destinations and 21 frequencies to Western Europe.

When Qantas held a dinner in Beijing recently to celebrate its new China flights, an Australian singer entertained the 220 guests.

Varig paid $56 million owed to aircraft leasing companies last Thursday, eliminating the threat that 40 of its aircraft--around 70% of its fleet--would be repossessed.