A total of 30 professionals and organisations were crowned winners at the Australian Aviation Awards this year, including engineers, pilots, aviation safety professionals, start-ups, and innovators.
Speaking at the Australian Aviation Summit in one of his first major public appearances since leaving the Flying Kangaroo in 2023, Joyce said resilience in the aviation industry often requires making “unpopular” short-term decisions to ensure long-term survival.
Speaking to ABC Radio in Coffs Harbour this week, Minister King said there have been several ideas floated to address the problem of high regional airfares, but “none of them are easy”.
In a brief judgment, Australia’s highest court rejected an appeal by Corporate Air Charter Pty Ltd of a ruling by the Full Federal Court that standby duty counts as “work”, and must therefore be included in calculations of pilots’ average weekly work hours.
The second annual Australian Aviation Summit returns in just one week, with leaders set to share exclusive insights in a period of transformation across our aviation industry.
The Federal Court ordered Webjet to pay the penalties after it admitted to making false or misleading statements about the price of flights and booking confirmations between 2018 and 2023, having advertised prices that excluded compulsory fees.