Hannah Dowling

According to court documents, the DJI Phantom 3 drone collided with the paraglider and became entangled in one of its brake lines, making steering difficult.

Australia’s Health Minister Greg Hunt made the announcement on Monday by stating that “the eagle has landed” after the aircraft delivered 142,000 doses.

Qantas has announced it has come to an agreement with Brisbane-based Alliance Airlines to utilise three of its Embraer E190 aircraft, and cash in on an expected post-COVID surge in domestic tourism. Under the new three-year deal, Alliance will operate three E190 regional aircraft, based in Darwin and Adelaide, on behalf of Qantas’ regional offshoot, […]

The owners of Wellcamp Airport have pitched the idea of a new purpose-built 1,000 room quarantine facility based at the airport for incoming overseas arrivals. According to a report by the ABC, the plan would see Wellcamp Airport, west of Toowoomba and 150 kilometres outside of Brisbane, as a new entry-point into the country for […]

An unsecured insulation blanket is to blame for a Q-Link Fokker 100 that fell 17,000 feet in six minutes in August last year, according to an ATSB investigation. The QantasLink aircraft was cruising at 26,000 feet carrying passengers from Perth to Geraldton, when crew were alerted to an ‘excessive cabin altitude’ warning, according to the […]

The Pfizer vaccine has now been approved for use on Australians aged 16 and over, another major milestone in the potential recovery of Australia’s aviation industry. Australia’s medical regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration, has officially approved the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine for use in Australia. The TGA said it conducted a thorough and independent review of […]

Regional Express (Rex) will conduct a flypast of Sydney’s Harbour and beaches on 26 January, showing off its newly acquired 737-800NGs, as its inter-capital city network launch quickly approaches. At approximately 10:15am on 26 January, one of Rex’s six leased Boeing 737s, sporting its newly revealed livery, is set to fly at 1500 feet over […]

Divers in Indonesia have reportedly found the casing of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) of the crashed Sriwijaya Air Boeing 737.

A key airport during the bushfire crisis will get an upgrade after reports its runway was so weak aircraft couldn’t fill their tanks fully.

Hopes pre-flight tests could replace quarantine were dealt a blow after ‘negative’ arrivals into New Zealand tested positive after landing.

Q-Link will close two of its Boeing 717 bases, one in Queensland and the other in Western Australia, and instead centralise its operations in Melbourne.

Rex has reportedly made moves to secure up to 10 Boeing 737s off the back of Virgin Australia’s restructuring as it prepares to expand its service.

Qantas has announced it will restart its scenic 12-hour flights from Australia to Antarctica and back, giving Australians a unique opportunity to view the frozen continent from above. Australia’s flagship carrier has partnered with tour company Antarctica Flights to provide a privately chartered Qantas Boeing 787 Dreamliner, for a total of seven flights from Australia […]

The new comments come after Qantas decided to take on Rex for the popular service, which Rex branded “anti-competitive”  behaviour.

The Australian Transport Safety Bureau has released an interim report on its ongoing investigation into a Sydney Seaplanes Beaver accident from December 2017, which saw the pilot and five passengers lose their lives.

The first direct flight between Canberra and Ballina/Byron Bay departed on Friday, with return flights between the ACT and the sunny far north NSW coastline to now depart three times per week.

Rex has lashed out at Qantas and called for government intervention, following its announcement of a new “commercially unsustainable” Sydney-Orange route.

The revelation comes after Australian Aviation also reported how Tumut in NSW has such as weak runway that aircraft can’t fill their water tanks fully.

Singapore Airlines has announced the addition of Wellcamp Airport in Toowoomba to its list of COVID-19 cargo destinations, serving as a part of the federal government’s International Freight Assistance Mechanism (IFAM) program.

Here’s where the Australian states currently stand on border closures after Victorian coronavirus cases spiked in the last week.

Trade and Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham also said it’s “more likely” that citizens will not be able to travel overseas until next year

Jetstar Pacific is set to become a wholly-owned subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines after Qantas confirmed that it intends to offload its minority stake in the carrier “in the coming months”.

A GoFundMe page has been launched in order to raise money for the wife and young children of Andy Shepherd, an experienced pilot and engineer who was tragically killed in a lightweight plane crash last month. Shepherd was 44 years old when his home-built Osprey 2 amphibious aircraft crashed into a backyard in the Hunter […]

Auckland Airport is banning family reunions at arrivals as part of new measures to mitigate an increase in passenger numbers caused by the relaxing of coronavirus restrictions.