Qantas and Virgin have argued a global lack of women becoming pilots or engineers is the reason airlines performed badly in gender pay data released by the federal government.
Ed Clark, a Boeing veteran of almost 20 years, will be replaced effective immediately by vice president of 737 delivery operations Katie Ringgold as vice president and general manager of the 737 program, and also as head of Boeing’s Renton factory in W…
The funding includes support for recipients to complete additional training that focusses on the type of specialist pilot skills the aviation and tech company requires from new recruits.
December 2023 saw 6 million domestic seats across all major airlines, about 95 per cent of 2019 levels. Around 4.8 million people flew domestically in December 2023, 94 per cent of December 2019 figures, and rates generally stayed at about 90 to 95 per…
The STEM Career Pathways report has found women are more likely to be on fixed-term contracts than men, and less likely to be in full-time work: only 58 per cent of women surveyed were on permanent full-time contracts, compared to 78 per cent of men.
In its first domestic airline competition report since it resumed monitoring the sector, the ACCC said average revenue per passenger incorporating all fare types was 13.4 per cent lower in December 2023 than in December 2022, when adjusted for inflation.
In a speech before the Chifley Research Institute on Tuesday, Dr Andrew Leigh, the Assistant Minister for Competition, pointed to figures from the taskforce showing that airfares average 39.6 cents per kilometre on routes with only one carrier, 28.2 ce…
