Rolls-Royce has started building the world’s largest aero-engine and is back in talks with Boeing for its proposed new mid-market aircraft, the 797.
Geoffrey Thomas
More half-price flights could be on the cards as the government looks to reignite domestic travel, the deputy prime minister has hinted. So will WA be snubbed again?
Erin Lyons
Canada's foreign minister says Iran's conduct "has been frankly unconscionable" since its forces shot down an airliner carrying dozens of Canadians in 2020.
AAP
The airline is scaling back its global travel ambitions in the wake of this week’s Federal Budget forecasts that outlined new predictions of low international arrivals until at least mid-2022.
Airbus and Air France are to face trial over the 2009 crash of a plane in the Atlantic that cost 228 lives.
The high price of COVID-19 testing could double the cost of overseas travel, the International Air Transport Association has warned. The association says fake COVID test results are also on the rise.
Australia’s premier airline has confirmed where its global headquarters will be after dismissing a ‘most likely outcome’.
Gerard Cockburn
Four people have died when a small plane crashed into a house in Mississippi.
The air cargo market is booming, domestic air travel is surging but international travel is pretty much grounded, says the International Air Transport Association latest report card.
Virgin Australia has laid bare the savage toll of the COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent administration, reporting an eye-watering statutory loss of $3.13 billion for the last financial year.
New research by one of the world’s leading MH370 investigators has revealed the pilot in command of the Boeing 777 may have actively attempted to avoid detection before it mysteriously disappeared.
The global airline industry stands to lose $US47.7 billion this year and more government support is needed to avert widespread bankruptcies, says an industry body.
Scott Morrison says he will not force any state or territory leader to agree to new overseas travel arrangements that would see hotel quarantine scrapped for returning Australians.
Joe Spagnolo
The airline is promising more cheap fares after revealing domestic demand is back to 90 per cent of pre-COVID levels, with the Australia-New Zealand travel bubble set to keep the recovery on track.
Virgin Australia has announced major expansion plans with 10 additional aircraft, new routes and extra flights to cater for robust domestic demand.
Qantas remains hopeful it can stick to plans to relaunch international travel later this year despite the Federal Government abandoning its timetable for COVID-19 vaccinations.
Angus Whitley
A 31-year-old pilot and his teenage passenger who were killed in a light plane crash northeast of Canberra were inspecting an electricity provider's network.
Indonesia's transport ministry says it has extracted 'good data' from the recovered cockpit voice recorder of a Sriwijaya Air jet that crashed in January.
The airline turf war on the east coast is set to heat up, with Virgin Australia bringing back five Boeing 737s from the Arizona desert to increase capacity on major trunk and holiday routes.
An Iranian prosecutor says 10 officials have been indicted over the 2020 military shootdown of a Ukrainian passenger plane that killed 176 people.
Jon Gambrell
Pack your jandals! Australia’s whiplashed aviation industry has welcomed news of a travel bubble between Australia and New Zealand as a turning point for airline and tourism operators.
Daniel Newell
Air New Zealand has given strong hints about the date West Australians can expect to travel on their first international ‘bubble’ flights.
The pilot of a microlight plane has been killed in a crash shortly after take-off southeast of Melbourne.
FIFO workers headed to Barrow Island this morning reported seeing a ‘big fireball’ from the window of their plane as an engine failure mid-flight forced the pilot to turn back to Perth.
Geoffrey Thomas & Ben Anderson
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