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The new facility doubles Omni’s footprint in Jandakot, creating opportunities for additional employment as the company continues to support the Commonwealth and Western Australian government’s contracts.
In a speech to the Committee for Economic Development Australia (CEDA) on Thursday, ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb noted that domestic airfares have increased following the reassertion of the Qantas-Virgin duopoly.
The company, which provides ground services to 29 domestic and international airline customers at 18 airports across both countries, has opened a new location at Melbourne Airport and renovated its facility in Sydney, with plans to open air cargo operations in Auckland next month.
The Regional Airfare Zone Cap (RAZC) scheme will receive another $4 million in funding, allowing it to continue into the middle of 2026, a move which follows a successful three-year pilot program.
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has recovered black boxes from both the American Airlines Bombardier CRJ700 passenger jet and the US Army Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter involved in the incident, which killed all 67 people on board both aircraft.
Last month, Australia saw 21,076 total international flights, up 5 per cent year-on-year and 11.8 per cent month-on-month, while domestic flights declined 2 per cent year-on-year to 91,547, according to Airservices’ Australian Aviation Network Overview report for December 2024.
