Adam Thorn

The industry groups representing airports, national airlines and regional aviation have all backed the government’s financial packages to replace JobKeeper.

A conglomerate of eight unions has written a letter to the prime minister expressing their “utter dismay” at the government’s new financial package to replace JobKeeper.

Qantas has said the government’s new package of financial support will accelerate its return to 80 per cent domestic capacity.

Rex’s deputy chairman John Sharp has revealed one of its exclusive routes that Qantas is moving into has seen an average of just 82 passengers a month for the past year.  

An ATSB report has concluded that the lack of an independent inspection following maintenance work likely led to a Bell JetRanger hitting a tree and crashing in the NT’s Kakadu National Park.  

NSW Premier Gladys Berejiklian has said state border closures were an “embarrassment” and should end when high-risk groups have been vaccinated.