{"id":397445,"date":"2026-03-31T15:54:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/australianaviation.com.au\/?p=1430393"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:54:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T05:54:08","slug":"union-slams-proposed-sale-of-aviation-firefighting-facilities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=397445","title":{"rendered":"Union slams proposed sale of aviation firefighting facilities"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHdpZHRoPSI2NDAiIGhlaWdodD0iMzYwIj48cmVjdCB3aWR0aD0iMTAwJSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxMDAlIj48YW5pbWF0ZSBhdHRyaWJ1dGVOYW1lPSJmaWxsIiB2YWx1ZXM9InJnYmEoMTUzLDE1MywxNTMsMC41KTtyZ2JhKDE1MywxNTMsMTUzLDAuMSk7cmdiYSgxNTMsMTUzLDE1MywwLjUpIiBkdXI9IjJzIiByZXBlYXRDb3VudD0iaW5kZWZpbml0ZSIgLz48L3JlY3Q+PC9zdmc+\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image wp-image-1380684 wp-post-1430393\" alt=\"\" style=\"float:left; margin:0 15px 15px 0;\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-public-id=\"Australian Aviation\/airservices_arff_training_iiz6i7\/airservices_arff_training_iiz6i7.jpg\" data-format=\"jpg\" data-transformations=\"f_auto\" data-version=\"1709696127\" data-seo=\"1\" data-responsive=\"1\" data-size=\"640 360\" data-delivery=\"upload\" onload=\";window.CLDBind?CLDBind(this):null;\" data-cloudinary=\"lazy\" \/>The United Firefighters Union of Australia \u2013 Aviation Branch (UFUAV) said the sale and leaseback proposal would \u201ceffectively privatise\u201d Australia\u2019s aviation rescue firefighting (ARFF) service, a charge which provider Airservices Australia rejects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United Firefighters Union of Australia \u2013 Aviation Branch (UFUAV) said the sale and leaseback proposal would \u201ceffectively privatise\u201d Australia\u2019s aviation rescue firefighting (ARFF) service, a charge which provider Airservices Australia rejects.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[273,312,3716,471],"tags":[472],"class_list":["post-397445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-australia","category-aviation","category-fire-fighting","category-news","tag-australian"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=397445"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":398068,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397445\/revisions\/398068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=397445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=397445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=397445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}