Hannah Dowling

Tens of thousands of people have been locked out of Western Australia indefinitely, after the state announced it would delay its reopening of international and domestic borders, airlines say.

An announcement could come in the coming days, as the airline works on its “backup plan” for both domestic and international operations to WA, Joyce said.

The company has acquired the terminal from its former local FBO partner Air Centre One, and will mark ExecuJet’s first owned and operated fixed-based operator (FBO) facility in New Zealand.

Police are investigating after a man allegedly attempted to steal a helicopter from a hangar at Mackay Airport late last week. CCTV footage later captured the attempted thief trying to flee the scene atop a red tractor.

A group of 24 Qantas Group employees filed legal action against Qantas in the Federal Court on Friday, and applied for an urgent interim injunction to prevent Qantas from enforcing the policy until the case has been heard.

Qantas has announced it will cut its planned domestic flight capacity by another 10 per cent through to the end of March, due to Western Australia’s delayed border reopening.