Hannah Dowling

Qantas has announced the official opening of its newest Flight Training Centre in Brisbane, and will soon begin training up to 900 pilots per year across its four state-of-the-art simulators.

Prime Minister Scott Morrison has revealed tentative plans to reopen Australia’s international borders to tourists for the first time in two years before the Easter holiday in mid-April.

Bain Capital, the private equity firm that purchased Virgin Australia out of voluntary administration in November 2020, is reportedly eyeing to float the company on the ASX as soon as 2023.

An organisation representing international airlines has called for an end to mandatory 14-day hotel quarantine for unvaccinated arrivals, deeming the practice “redundant”.

Qantas has agreed to possibly begin conciliation talks with cabin crew unions, after initially moving to terminate its enterprise agreement with international cabin crew altogether.

Imposing a flight curfew on Brisbane Airport would be unlikely to help with flight noise complaints, and the “worst thing to happen” to the airport, according to airport CEO Gert-Jan de Graaf.