Year: 2025

Lockheed Martin’s famed Skunk Works division, working alongside industry partners and the United States Air Force, has successfully demonstrated the ability for a pilot of a fifth-generation fighter jet to control an unmanned aircraft while in flight.

In a new report, the Western Sydney Leadership Dialogue called for a “more ambitious, multi‑year package” to bolster connectivity at the airport on top of the existing $16 million Western Sydney International Take-Off Fund, saying other airports have received far more funding.

Helloworld, which already owns 17.27 per cent of Webjet, is offering 90 cents per share for all of its remaining stock, for a total of around $353 million. Webjet has only been listed on the ASX for just over a year since its demerger from WEB Travel Group in September 2024.

On this week’s Australian Aviation Podcast, Jake, David and Bethany take a look at Jetstar’s new Denpasar-Singapore routes, what they might do for the regional Australian cities they serve, and what might be next.

Minister for Jobs and Tourism, Steve Kamper, said that the state government is continuing to “back the aviation industry”, with this most recent fund following the $16 million Western Sydney International Take-Off Fund that was introduced in March this year.

The technical issues, which Australian Aviation understands were unrelated to a wide-scale global Cloudflare outage, forced air traffic controllers to process flight plans manually at Melbourne, Perth and Adelaide Airports, according to media reports.