The test, conducted on a ground demonstrator aircraft dubbed “Clyde”, took place at Brisbane Airport and was the first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, as well as the first on a registered plane at an international airport.
Only 1.8 per cent of flights were cancelled in October 2024, around half the rate of October 2023, as detailed in Airservices’ latest Australian Aviation Network Overview report for November, though on-time performance still lags the rest of the world.
The Gulf carrier will launch a daily service via Melbourne in December 2025 using its 777 fleet, bringing international connections out of Canberra back to two after Batik Air indefinitely suspended its Denpasar service in October.
Babcock Australasia recently delivered a Bell 412 helicopter to the SA Ambulance Service as part of its ongoing partnership with the State Rescue Helicopter Service.
This is really good news and a much needed step in the right direction for removal of divisive and harmful rhetoric undertaken for profit and political purposes.
For many years Council has advocated for pollution filters to be fitted on the vents to reduce the impact of pollution from the tunnel on the surrounding community.
The low-cost carrier is now flying from Sydney to Port Vila, Sunshine Coast to Auckland, and Brisbane to Bangkok, and has launched four new routes in the past fortnight, with Sunshine Coast to Cairns having commenced on 4 December.
The seasonal service, currently the only non-stop link from Adelaide to mainland China, will operate three times per week, and comes after the carrier’s return to Perth in November. The state government and Adelaide Airport say they are in discussions …
The deal, as reported by The Australian Financial Review, would give the government a bigger say in the ultimate fate of the collapsed airline, and comes after it provided Rex with an $80 million funding injection to keep flying as administrator EY Aus…
