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Speaking to David Speers on ABC’s Insiders on Sunday morning, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said the Iran conflict has become a major consular crisis for Australia. It comes after the RAAF last week deployed two aircraft to the Middle East in case they a…

The Australian Government has advised that Australians overseas should be prepared for serious travel disruptions in the days ahead due to the conflict. The first Dubai-to-Sydney flight, EK414, took off at around 9:20am Sydney time on Wednesday morning.

Speaking to media on Monday, Foreign Minister Penny Wong said around 115,000 Australians are currently in the Middle East region, and that the resumption of commercial flights would be the government’s preferred method for repatriating them given the s…

Speaking on the investigation into the 29 January 2025 disaster which killed all 67 people on an American Airlines CRJ700 and a US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk, Jennifer Homendy, chairwoman of the NTSB, said “system flaws” aligned to cause the crash….

According to reporting in the South China Morning Post, two test pilots from EASA, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency, have conducted verification flights of the narrowbody jet in Shanghai. Comac is looking to position the C919 as a competitor t…

Overall passenger numbers grew by 4.5 per cent year-on-year in December 2025, Airservices said in its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for the month, driven by holiday travel and major events like the Ashes as well as Lady Gaga and AC/DC con…

The planemaker has a total order book of 8,754 commercial aircraft at year-end, with 1,000 new gross orders over the course of the calendar year. A total of 793 Airbus planes were delivered to 91 airline customers around the world in 2025.

As 2026 dawns, Australian Aviation takes a look back at 2025 and counts down our top five most-read stories.

The poll of more than 1,200 respondents showed that 61 per cent have seen luggage damaged or delayed but returned; 26 per cent lost their luggage; and 13 per cent had their luggage stolen and never recovered.