From January next year, the tax – applied to all airfares and cruise tickets leaving the country – will increase from $70 to $80 in what Tourism and Transport Forum (TTF) CEO Margy Osmond has labelled “an absolute shocker for the tourism industry”….
Around 150 employees at Sydney and Brisbane Airports, currently employed by Qantas subsidiaries Eastern and Sunstate, would be affected by the new arrangements, which the union says would bump their pay by around 30 per cent and “close a long-standing …
Two of the airborne intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and electronic warfare aircraft arrived in Australia earlier this year. The MC-55A Peregrines are based at RAAF Base Edinburgh, South Australia, and operated by No. 10 Squadron.
In a letter to Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson, ASU assistant national secretary Scott Cowen noted recent comments by Hudson at the Macquarie Australia Conference this month regarding cost reductions and the integration of AI across the Qantas Gr…
Future Form, a subcontractor for construction consortium Parklife Metro, came under scrutiny last year for alleged exploitation of workers and “mafia-style” intimidation tactics. The findings of an investigation have now been referred to police and int…
The air force deployed a C-130J Hercules transport aircraft under No. 40 Squadron for the medical evacuation to Antarctica’s McMurdo Station and round trip back to Christchurch late last month.
All Link Airways flights from Shellharbour to Melbourne and Brisbane will be suspended starting 20 May due to “increased fuel costs and reduced demand”, meaning residents of Shellharbour and the Illawarra, including Wollongong, will need to travel to S…
Titled “Touching the Jet Stream”, the book, published by Hardie Grant, is billed as “a compelling, factual and gripping memoir from one of Australia’s most consequential chief executives”, and will cover Joyce’s career across 30 years in the aviation i…
Australia’s largest regional airshow is expected to showcase three Spitfires soaring over the NSW coastline, a motorcycle backflipping over an aircraft and a Piper Cub landing on the back of a moving truck.