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From Toowoomba to the World
airports edition
One of the things that first struck me when I started reporting on the aviation beat is how Australia’s airports were forced to do much of the heavy lifting during COVID with little help. Or often, thanks.
The biggest constraint, of course, was that many airports were excluded from JobKeeper payments because they were technically council-owned. When I spoke to Mildura’s chairman, Peter O’Donnell, he sounded bleak back in May last year. “Nearly every bit of support we’re looking at is unavailable to us despite the fact we’re running 95 per cent down on revenue, and we’ve laid off 60 per cent of our staff,” he said. It was a situation that echoed up and down the country.
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Adam Thorn And Hannah Dowling
Charting the locations, and airports, set to benefit from the government’s cheap ticket initiative to resuscitate domestic aviation
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Adapting to the year that wasn’t
Brisbane, Melbourne, Sydney, Adelaide and Perth airports innovated during their COVID hibernations
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Former Australian Aviation editor Keith Tonkin argues the industry needs to listen and learn from its experienced staff to survive and emerge from these volatile times
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Q&A with Wellcamp Airport chairman John Wagner
Chairman John Wagner discusses building its new Regional Transport Distribution Centre and additional hangars
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WTB – Regional Australia’s biggest little airport
Inside the airport that plays host to aircraft as diverse as Diamond DA40 trainers all the way up to a Boeing 747 Freighters
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James Goodwin
Traffic light system can open us to the world
Australian Airports Association CEO James Goodwin explains why relaxing restrictions to visit lower risk countries could kick-start the recovery
