Year: 2023
RAAF Richmond maintenance workers reject pants offer with small pay rise
Airbus Australia Pacific has offered each of the C-130 Hercules maintenance workers a pair of work pants per year to entice them to accept a 2.5 per cent per year wage rise for three years.
Read more »Podcast: Is the long goodbye to Alan Joyce a good idea?
This week, Adam, Chris and Jake ask whether the succession plan will work and analyse Joyce’s legacy. Was he the man who saved, or broke, the Flying Kangaroo?
Read more »Sydney Airport sells data bundles for international flyers
/Dubbed tripsim, the product, developed in partnership with eSIM Go, offers bundles for more than 150 countries, with prices varying depending on the destination and data plan size. =
Read more »Catering giant dnata pleads for delay to student visa work caps
From 1 July, work restrictions for subclass-500 student visa holders – which were suspended in January 2022 to address workforce shortages – will be reintroduced, with the cap increasing from 40 to 48 hours per fortnight. dnata has called on the Government to delay these changes for 18 months, saying they will produce a labour gap equivalent of 150 people.
Read more »Tech boss flies Aussie-first Airbus-Aston Martin helicopter from UK
/John-Paul Thorbjornsen flew the seven-seater helicopter home from the UK in a 41-day journey spanning 10,000 nautical miles, making 39 stops across 21 countries along the way. The ACH130AM is a collaboration between Airbus and luxury car company Aston Martin, which contributed to the aircraft’s interior and exterior design.
Read more »Joyce says COVID-19 scuppered his planned 2020 Qantas exit
/In a press conference welcoming his successor, Qantas CFO Vanessa Hudson, Joyce said that COVID-19 had left Qantas 11 weeks from complete collapse in 2020 and that, now the crisis has passed and the Flying Kangaroo has recovered, now is the “logical time” for him to go.
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