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Video Podcast: Australian Aviation’s 2024 year in review

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December 18, 2024
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Adam and Jake break down the biggest stories of the year, from airline collapses to new partnerships and long-awaited reforms.

Boeing astronauts to stay stranded in space until March

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December 18, 2024
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Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore will now not come home until “no earlier than late March 2025”, back from February, to allow for more “complete processing” for a new SpaceX Dragon capsule.

Sydney slot manager hits back after losing contract

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December 18, 2024
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Airport Coordination Australia (ACA), which has handled Sydney’s slots for the past quarter century, has lost the contract to London-based Airport Coordination Limited (ACL) for the next three years, as reported in The Australian this week.

Qantas to pay out $120m over illegal sackings

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December 18, 2024
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The fund, administered by Maurice Blackburn Lawyers on behalf of the Transport Workers’ Union, will compensate the 1,820 affected workers following a ruling by the Federal Court in October. If split evenly, each worker would receive around $66,000, tho…

Did Alan Joyce cost Qantas our trust?

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December 17, 2024
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Former AFR columnist Joe Aston’s bombshell book, The Chairman’s Lounge, led to weeks of bad headlines for the Flying Kangaroo. Here, the author talks to Jake Nelson about the carrier’s missteps and whether its former CEO trashed its brand.

Exclusive: Regional carriers in limbo over Rex, says Skytrans

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December 17, 2024
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CEO Alan Milne’s comments come after the AFR reported the Government is considering buying out investment firm PAG’s debt from Rex to have more say over the outcome of the administration process, which has been extended to the end of June 2025.

Juneyao Air touches down in Australia

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December 17, 2024
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Flight HO1669 touched down from Shanghai at 6:44am Tuesday morning aboard the 787-9 Dreamliner B-20EC, with four weekly flights planned, increasing to daily over the lunar new year period. Juneyao will also begin flights from Shanghai to Melbourne late…

First flights begin from Sydney and Melbourne to Beijing Daxing

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December 17, 2024
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The airline, one of China’s “Big Four”, is flying four times per week from Sydney and three times per week from Melbourne using A330 aircraft, both for ten-week seasons. Daxing is Beijing’s newer international airport, and the city’s second alongside B…

Support for rail trail extension in Queensland’s scenic Mary Valley

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December 17, 2024
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There are rail trails in every state and territory in Australia.

Skytrans’ first A319 arrives in Australia

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December 16, 2024
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The aircraft, to be registered VH-L7A, formerly flew with Italian airline ITA and is now owned by Skytrans parent company Avia Solutions Group (ASG). It arrived in Brisbane at 7:40 on Monday morning, having flown from Lithuania via Ras Al Khaimah, Colo…