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Qantas marks International Women’s Day with 50 all-female flights

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March 3, 2025
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Over 250 crew members, including pilots, cabin crew, operational staff, and engineers, will work on the regional, domestic and international Qantas and Jetstar services across Australia, New Zealand and Asia, with the first, a Jetstar Adelaide–Sydney s…

NSW RFS extends access to Defence bases for another 4 years

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March 3, 2025
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The agreement will ensure the NSW Rural Fire Service can continue to support aerial firefighting operations and protect local communities and the environment through aerial firefighting operations facilitated from three Defence bases.

Sikorsky locks in $313.5m MRO contract for Navy Romeo helicopters

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March 3, 2025
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The sustainment contract will create over 75 new jobs in Nowra at Sikorsky Australia’s maintenance and logistics support facility, building on its existing workforce of 200.

Skytrans cleared for A319 operations as second touches down

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March 3, 2025
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The regional Queensland airline, which was last year purchased by global aviation firm Avia Solutions Group, received its first A319, registered VH-L7A, in mid-December. Its second – to be registered VH-L7C – arrived at the end of last month.

I love the flight life: Virgin hosts ‘sky-high disco’ for Mardi Gras

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March 3, 2025
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The two Sydney-bound flights from Melbourne and Brisbane on Friday were crewed entirely by LGBTQIA+ staff members and allies, including both flight and cabin crews, and featured mid-air DJ entertainment and drag performances.

Exclusive: Brisbane first of big 3 to beat domestic pre-COVID figures

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March 2, 2025
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Across Australia, a combination of cost-of-living pressures and a reduction in business travel has led to domestic travel stagnating in the last few years.

Dutton pledges to increase F-35 fleet from 72 to 100

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March 2, 2025
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Labor last year put on hold plans to buy a fourth squadron of F-35s and said it would instead redirect some of that investment towards long-range missiles.

Chiltern Railways holds Railway Children Sleepout at London Marylebone Station

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March 1, 2025
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Thirteen workers from Chiltern Railways took part in an overnight sleepout at London Marylebone station yesterday (Thursday 27 February), raising over five thousand pounds for the charity Railway Children.

Historic moment as capsule touches down at Koonibba Test Range

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February 28, 2025
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Southern Launch, which operates the site, confirmed Varda’s W-2 spacecraft touched down using a parachute at 1:02 am local time and was monitored on the way down with tracking telescopes.

Exclusive: Virgin flies Rex’s iconic VH-REX aircraft

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February 27, 2025
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The news caps a remarkable turnaround that saw Rex obtain some of Virgin’s leased aircraft when it entered administration in 2020, before the larger carrier took them back when the same fate befell the regional carrier last year.