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Qantas engineers set to return to picket line as negotiations fail

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December 12, 2024
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Members of the Qantas Engineers’ Alliance (QEA) or “alliance unions”, comprising the AMWU, AWU and ETU, will down tools starting at 3:30am local time on Friday until 7:30am local time on Saturday across Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Perth and Adelaide A…

Virgin rolls out ticket sales for Doha

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December 12, 2024
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Fares are now on sale from Sydney, Brisbane and Perth to Doha starting June 2025, with Melbourne coming later in the year. Virgin’s economy launch sale fares significantly undercut rivals Qantas and Emirates on some routes, including Perth-Paris and Br…

Scott Morrison to headline Australian Space Summit

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December 12, 2024
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Hosted in support with principal partner Space Centre Australia, the two-day event will feature two main stages with more than 70 senior industry figures talking about the space and defence sectors.

Virgin launches in-app ‘journey tracking’ ahead of holiday peak

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December 11, 2024
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Virgin expects to fly nearly 500,000 seats per week across its domestic and short-haul international networks in the December-January holiday period, or up to 3,000 weekly flights.

CASA tips air taxis to be up and running by 2030

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December 11, 2024
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In its newly-released RPAS and AAM Strategic Regulatory Roadmap, the aviation safety regulator said it expects the first commercial AAM operations, including “air taxi” passenger transport in urban areas, to be up and running between 2027 and 2029.

ANA to fly year-round from Perth

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December 11, 2024
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Currently operating three times per week on the 787-9 Dreamliner, the Narita service – which recommenced in October, two weeks ahead of schedule – was originally slated to end for the season in March 2025 but will now be a permanent fixture at the airp…

ASIC sues Rex for ‘misleading and deceptive conduct’

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December 11, 2024
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The corporate watchdog says the company – now in voluntary administration – released a misleading ASX statement on 28 February 2023 saying it was “optimistic the Group will have positive operating profits for the full FY23 barring any further external …

Spectre of jail looms for woman with the golden gun

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December 10, 2024
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Liliana Goodson, now 30, was arrested in April 2023 after Border Force officers found the $3,000 pistol in her luggage, and will serve 12 months – four of them in full-time custody – after pleading guilty to illegally importing a firearm and ammunition…

RAAF opens new fuel quality control centre

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December 10, 2024
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The new centre is located at RAAF Base Edinburgh, around 25 kilometres north of Adelaide, and would be available for use by No. 92 Wing’s P-8A Poseidon aircraft used to conduct surveillance operations throughout Australia’s airspace.

ELA to ‘immediately’ shut NT spaceport and move to Queensland

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December 10, 2024
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In a strongly worded statement, ELA said the decision was “forced by the inability to finalise a lease” for the expansion of its Arnhem Space Centre, which it blamed on the Northern Land Council.