Year: 2023

The airport, which recently finished a $200 million terminal expansion, is looking to entice airlines such as Cathay Pacific, China Southern, and Emirates back to Adelaide. The retail space from the terminal expansion has been fully leased and is expected to be completely open by year’s end.

The 800-metre Deborah Lawrie Flyover, part of the $2.6 billion Sydney Gateway project, passes over Sir Reginald Ansett Drive to the domestic terminals, and is slated to open this weekend. Lawrie famously won a 10-month legal battle against Ansett’s refusal to hire women as pilots in the 1970s.

The Rockwell 695A Jetprop Commander light aircraft registered VH-HPY went down close to Eloise Copper Mine, near Cloncurry in the state’s northwest, on Saturday afternoon while engaged in fire surveillance activities. All three people on board were killed.

The huge rejection represents a sizable first strike against the board, though Qantas did manage to have its preferred slate of directors elected, including advertising guru Todd Sampson who survived a 34 per cent protest vote.

CAPA founder Peter Harbison has written the definitive biography of Alan Joyce’s time at Qantas. Here, he tells Jake Nelson what the former CEO got right and wrong.

Australian Aviation opens its archive to tell the story of the sad demise of the Concorde, and one incredible flight of four of them.