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Qantas ground workers to strike again
Transport Workers’ Union members with Qantas Ground Services at Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Brisbane and Perth Airports, who serve Qantas Freight operations and some QantasLink operations in Sydney, will walk off the job for 24 hours on Wednesday.
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Sun sets on Qantas’ Melbourne A380 operations
Qantas has performed its final scheduled passenger service from Melbourne on its Airbus A380 fleet, marking the end of an era – and reduced booking options for premium passengers.
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Virgin Australia cabin crew to vote on industrial action
The Transport Workers’ Union says Virgin has delivered “record profits” in recent years, with former owner Bain Capital extracting $2.7 billion from the airline since purchasing it from administration in 2020, and that the firm should “reinvest the profits back into the workforce who helped deliver them”.
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Wheels up for Jetstar’s Perth–Christchurch route
Flight JQ185 took off from Perth for Christchurch at 8:30am on Tuesday, operated by the A321neo LR VH-OLQ. Jetstar will fly three times per week on the route until April 2027, adding more than 37,000 seats and competing with an upcoming Air New Zealand service.
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Singapore kicks off expanded Adelaide flights as demand soars
As of Sunday, 25 October, Singapore Airlines now operates daily daytime flights from the South Australian capital to Singapore, alongside five evening departures a week, running Thursday through Monday.Â
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Perth Airport shows off design for mammoth new terminal
The 159,000-square-metre terminal will be nearly three times the size of the existing Terminals 3 and 4, and 25 per cent larger than the combined footprint of Terminals 1 and 2. It will deliver 22 new contact gates, including swing gates that can switch between domestic and international as required.
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Move over, Mascot: WSI could become Sydney’s main airport, says CEO
Speaking to media at the launch of international flights on Monday, WSI CEO Simon Hickey said the new airport is expected to reach its current maximum capacity of 10 million annual passengers within the next decade, with plans to expand as needed.
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Jetstar brings back Sydney–Christchurch flights
Flight JQ140 left Christchurch at 9:13am aboard the A320 VH-X3J, arriving at Kingsford Smith shortly before 10:30am local time before returning as JQ141 at 12:30pm. The service, operating four times per week, will add almost 40,000 seats annually between Sydney and the South Island.
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ATSB releases preliminary reports into 2 more Sydney incidents
Air traffic control staff resourcing and visibility from Sydney’s ATC tower are both being examined as part of the investigation into the two near misses in August – one between Qantas and Virgin 737s on the 17th, and the other between a Jetstar A320 and QantasLink Q400 on the 25th.
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Melbourne’s new Helsinki flights cross the Finnish line
Finnair flight AY145 landed in Melbourne at 7:14am on Monday aboard the A350-900 OH-LWO, making Melbourne the only airport in Australia currently served by a European Union airline.
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Air New Zealand kicks off Western Sydney’s international flights
Flight NZ165 was the first to touch down at WSI, landing ahead of schedule at just before 7:30am aboard the A320neo ZK-NHC, with the return NZ166 service departing for Auckland just after 9:15am. It comes after Jetstar began domestic services on Sunday.
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Exclusive: Western Sydney–Bali is on the cards, says Jetstar boss
Speaking to Australian Aviation at WSI on Sunday, CEO Stephanie Tully said both Western Sydney and Bali are important markets to Jetstar, and that the airline would expect strong demand. It comes as the new airport has finally opened to passengers, with two Jetstar flights taking off on Sunday.
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Exclusive: Western Sydney-Bali is on the cards, says Jetstar boss
Speaking to Australian Aviation at WSI on Sunday, Tully said both Western Sydney and Bali are important markets to Jetstar, and that the airline would expect strong demand. It comes as the new airport has finally opened to passengers, with two Jetstar flights taking off on Sunday.
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Western Sydney Airport welcomes historic first flights
The inaugural service, Jetstar flight JQ362, took off for the Gold Coast shortly after 11:20am on Sunday, with the return JQ363 service becoming the first inbound flight when it touched down at WSI at around 3:30pm, both operated by A320neo VH-A5E.
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Trio of former Rex directors not off the hook as ASIC seeks appeal
The NSW Supreme Court ruled in June that ASIC had failed to prove its case against John Sharp, Siddharth Khotkar, and Lincoln Pan over a market update in February 2023 saying Rex was “optimistic” about a full-year profit, though former executive director Lim Kim Hai was fined and disqualified.
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Qantas takes triple crown in on-time performance and cancellations
Last month, 83.2 per cent of Qantas and QantasLink services departed on time and 82.5 per cent arrived on time, with 1.4 per cent cancelled, compared to 74.3 per cent on-time departures, 74.2 per cent on-time arrivals, and 1.6 per cent cancellations at Virgin Australia and VARA.
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Australia makes offer to ESA for Katherine Bennell-Pegg spaceflight
Bennell-Pegg completed her basic astronaut training in 2024 and, if the ESA bid is successful, is hoped to become the first formal Australian representative to fly to space.
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ATSB finds major gap in aerial firefighting incident reporting
Of 149 pilots surveyed as part of the safety watchdog’s ongoing aerial firefighting safety study, 91 respondents (61 per cent) said they had experienced an incident between 2017 and 2022, but only 52 (35 per cent) said they had reported it.
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Brisbane Airport targets 50 international destinations by mid-2030s
Speaking to The Courier-Mail this week, Gert-Jan de Graaff said Brisbane Airport – which currently has links to 35 international destinations – is looking to increase its Asian connectivity, including to Thailand, China and India, as well as potential services to South America through Santiago.
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WSI to debut new digital incoming passenger declaration
The ATD, which is designed to supplant the paper Incoming Passenger Card, will be available to passengers arriving on the first international flight to WSI – an Air New Zealand service from Auckland – on 26 October.
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STEM students explore Defence careers at RAAF Williamtown
As part of the Defence Work Experience STEM Immersion Program, the 10 students spent a week at the Air Force base in the NSW Hunter region, meeting with Australian Defence Force, Australian Public Service and Defence industry professionals.
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Sunshine Coast Airport begins work on timber terminal roof frames
Around 30 tonnes of engineered timber, also called glulam or GLT, is being used for the terminal’s raking roof frames, which the airport says “reinforces the terminal’s connection to the landscape that surrounds it” and saves around 40 tonnes of carbon compared to steel and concrete.
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CASA yet to show why registration fee is necessary, aero clubs say
As reported by The Australian, the regulator has released results from the survey about the proposed fee, to be implemented from July next year, but only surveyed potential implementation methods and did not ask pilots about whether the fee should be imposed at all.
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Video Podcast: Bonza’s final chapter
On this week’s Australian Aviation Podcast, Jake, David and Hannah take a magnifying glass to the financial skulduggery of 777 Partners in the wake of its CEO’s guilty plea over a $500 million fraud scheme.
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Relief for Virgin Australia as FAA certifies 737 MAX 10
Featuring up to 230 seats, the MAX 10 is the largest aircraft in the 737 MAX family, joining the MAX 7 – which was certified earlier this year – as well as the MAX 8 and MAX 9. The announcement will be welcome news for Virgin Australia, which is expecting its first MAX 10 to arrive next year.
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Builders tapped for Stage 1 of Melbourne Airport rail link
The Network Integration Program Alliance, comprising CPB Contractors and SMEC, will carry out the works to turn Sunshine Station into a “transport superhub” that will link the airport line into the rest of Melbourne’s suburban train network.
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Lucky 7: Qatar Airways signs on at WSI
From 15 December 2027, the Gulf carrier will operate three 777-300ER flights per week between WSI and Doha, expanding to daily flights by the end of 2028. Flights will arrive into WSI at 11:45pm, departing for Doha at 4:10pm the following day.
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Lim Kim Hai fined $800k, disqualified over wrongdoing at Rex
Lim, who in May admitted to misleading investors over Rex’s financial performance in 2023 and agreed to accept penalties, has also been ordered to pay a portion of the Australian Securities and Investments Commission’s costs in the case brought against him and three other former Rex directors.
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Virgin Australia eyes entry to Perth–Bali market
The airline has written to the International Air Services Commission for 5,086 seats per week in each direction on the Indonesia route, with an eye to expanding its existing Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane services, as well as operating flights from Perth to Denpasar.
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Faulty seatbelt caused pilot injury during nosedive training: ATSB
A “worn” latch and internal sub-parts caused a pilot’s five-point seatbelt harness to unbuckle while the plane was upside down in an aerobatic manoeuvre, according to a new report by the ATSB.
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