The carrier’s latest illusory results were aided by the extinguishment of $4.4b in creditors claims with its sale by administrators in November.
Sean Smith
The Royal Flying Doctor Service has been a mainstay in Australian skies for nearly a century, but WA chief executive Rebecca Tomkinson has her sights set on another realm.
Adrian Lowe
Travel provider Webjet has limited its first-half losses as people travel widely again in the pandemic.
Steven Deare
Virgin Australia has signed up for seven more Boeing 737-800NGs and has advised all staff that they will be re-employed by December.
Geoffrey Thomas
SpaceX will fly the first orbital test of its massive Starship rocket early next year and expects a dozen or more launches in 2022, founder Elon Musk said.
Justin Bachman
The Royal Flying Doctor Service will add two choppers to their existing fleet of 20 fixed-wing aircraft under a five-year partnership with Fortescue Metals Group in a bid to cut patient transfer times.
Caitlin Paroczai
Airbus SE notched a mega-order for 255 narrow-body jets at the Dubai Airshow, bolstering the European planemaker’s case that aircraft demand has started to roar back from the lows of the coronavirus pandemic.
Charlotte Ryan
It seems that Australians love collecting frequent flyer points, but what’s the best way to maximise the value from all the collecting when WA’s international borders remain firmly shut?
Fran Hughes
Perth Airport has approved the construction of its first multi-storey carpark in front of its Terminal 1 building to solve congestion issues at the drop-off and pick-up areas.
Belarus airline Belavia will stop allowing citizens of Iraq, Syria and Yemen to board flights from Turkey to Belarus at the request of Turkish authorities.
AAP
In an Australian first, Perth Airport has both the commonly used name and the Indigenous name of destinations across the nation on its domestic boarding gates.
Virgin Galactic expects to be flying paying passengers three times monthly in 2023, signalling it’s on track to ramp up commercial flights after delays this year pushed back its space tourism debut timeline.
It is believed up to 40 prominent WA business figures and politicians may have lost personal or business data when they opened Mr Power’s email.
Sydney Airport has accepted a $23.6 billion takeover bid, bringing to an end a four-month tussle over price between the operator and Sydney Aviation Alliance.
Sydney Airport has agreed to sell to a consortium of funds for $23.6 billion, just as Australia reopens its borders to international travel.
Harry Brumpton and Angus Whitley
Qantas is set to take off, says chairman Richard Goyder, despite the airline enduring a horrid 18 months during which it enjoyed just 30 days without travel restrictions.
National carrier Qantas says it is seeing a rebound in domestic and international bookings since the easing of travel restrictions.
Linda Hapgood’s mantra is to stretch yourself and know you can do more than you think you can and she is testing that theory in her new key role at Boeing.
Perth Airport is losing nearly $6 on every passenger flying in and out of the city after the collapse in air travel during COVID-19 left it nursing a first ever loss of nearly $65 million.
The former Fortescue Metals Group boss was charged nearly two weeks ago with breaching WA’s COVID-19 border restrictions.
The flying kangaroo is set to soar into the skies from Darwin to London with the 17-hour direct flight set to continue until at least April of next year.
Aaron Bunch
The Qantas boss has taken a subtle swipe at Western Australia when he joined the Prime Minister to make a major announcement about international travel.
News Corp Australia
Qantas is kickstarting a new route to New Delhi and restarting a handful of others ahead of Australia opening its international border to NSW in November.
Qantas head Alan Joyce has forecast the airline's domestic capacity being back at pre-pandemic levels by February as Australia's re-opening gathers pace.
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