On this week’s Australian Aviation Podcast, Jake and special guest host Emilie Lauer of Smart Property Investment unpack the ramifications of the $90 million Qantas fine.
In the June meeting minutes, obtained by The Australian under freedom of information laws, Department of Home Affairs assistant secretary (aviation security) Matthew Pedler told airport operators that the alleged incident was the worst since a disrupte…
Hundreds of dnata employees at Perth Airport will go on strike, affecting flights to destinations including Singapore, the UAE, South Africa, Vietnam, and New Zealand. According to the TWU, Perth has the lowest paid dnata workers in the country.
The airline has now reached a tentative agreement which will bring its 10,000 flight attendants back to work while negotiations take place “overseen by a mutually agreed-to mediator”, though it has warned that a restoration of full services may take se…
The Canadian flag carrier, which has been a Virgin partner since 2023, flies daily to Sydney and six times per week to Brisbane from Vancouver, but has seen all flights cancelled since 16 August as cabin crew from the Canadian Union of Public Employees…
The weekly 737 flights, which depart Brisbane on Saturdays and return from Koror on Sundays, began in December last year, with Qantas taking over from Nauru Airlines under contract with the Australian Government.
The latest episode of the Australian Aviation Podcast spotlights two finalists in the 2025 Australian Aviation Awards, with host Steve Kuper joined by Daniel Wang, head of programs for ATC and air defence at Rohde & Schwarz, and Rodney Sciortino, h…
Speaking exclusively to Australian Aviation, Milne – who bought East Air after leaving Skytrans, now SmartLynx Australia, earlier this year – said the carrier’s first route from Cairns to Hamilton Island is only the beginning, with plans to become “a d…
The first Malaysia A330neo touched down in Sydney on Monday, with the new aircraft to operate on both daily Sydney-Kuala Lumpur flights and a third to begin on 30 August. This will bring Sydney’s Kuala Lumpur capacity to 630,000 seats per year, the hig…
The carrier, one of China’s “Big Four”, will ramp up from seven to 10 weekly Brisbane flights on 17 November, then 14 from 15 December to 22 February, before scaling back to 11 until 2 March. The extra services will be operated by the airline’s A350 ai…