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The insight into reported apparent safety deficiencies within Airservices by ABC News represents a worthy raising of potential issues with Australia’s air navigation services provider. But it also warrants at a closer look at balance that needs to be applied in such matters. Headlining the exposé, it should first be noted that the “internal report”
The Regional Aviation Association of Australia (RAAA) has launched its Regional Aviation Policy – a timely pre-election call to arms against ongoing government antipathy towards an industry the association calls “an integral part in Australia’s development”. Launched by RAAA chairman Jeff Boyd at the association’s annual parliamentary summit in Canberra on Tuesday, the policy seeks
The Flight Attendants Association of Australia (FAAA) has achieved agreements with Qantas on longhaul flight attendant conditions for the next three and a half years. Flight attendants, who will vote on the agreement during March, will retain their current entitlements and receive a three per cent annual increase totalling 12 per cent over the life
As an off-line carrier Finnair intrinsically has less exposure than competing on-line airlines operating to Australia. However, a renewed sales push by the airline in this market together with a new business class offering make Finnair’s Helsinki hub an option seriously worth considering. Finnair’s regional sales manager Geoff Stone told Australian Aviation: “One of the
As the world’s economy began to improve modestly towards the end of 2012, trends in the global airline industry were emerging that gave clear indications of what can be expected in 2013 – all things being equal. Of course, they rarely are equal in the airline industry, but as figures released by the Centre for
By Michael Gisick The Byzantine Empire, as the standard-bearer of Christian civilization for a millennium after the fall of Rome, deserves to be remembered for many things. But it has left its clearest mark in modern English as a term for a particularly self-destructive form of politics – one defined by consuming internal rivalry and
