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Cost shifting Moving around some rural centres we are often brought into a discussion on the increasing coat of doing business in regional Australia. On one hand we have part of the Australian government insisting that some government departments decentralise. For example the Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) from Canberra to Armidale in

Fresh signs of optimism for regional aviation While there are no corks popping just yet, recent indications of green shoots in Australia’s regional aviation sector has given some cause for optimism. The latest profit results from Regional Express (Rex) and Alliance Aviation Services, along with the introduction of new routes from both large and small

Qantas drops Dubai as it plots an ultra long-haul future When Qantas’s final service from Dubai takes off in late March 2018, it will represent the first time in roughly five years since the Australian flag carrier dropped an international destination from its route network. It was April 2013 when Qantas withdrew from Frankfurt as

When it comes to creating Australia’s next generation air traffic management system, OneSKY is the big one, a pioneering venture which one key player likens to performing a heart and lung transplant to a marathon runner mid-race. AirServices Australia chief executive Jason Harfield said there was only one system in the world that came close

Combat power through organisation, Part I Recent ‘On Target’ columns in Australian Aviation have focused on the aeroplane and its evolution from airborne platform to airborne weapons system, an evolution which has seen lessening incremental gains in platform performance but huge leaps in weapons system capability. Unsurprisingly, these advances in the combat capability of airborne

Fokker 100 continues its reign over Australian regions When the world learned this May that King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands had been moonlighting as a pilot of Dutch-manufactured regional jets for national airline KLM, the Fokker 100 and 70 family of aircraft — relatively rare, globally speaking — was thrust into the spotlight. Yet with