Hannah Dowling

Virgin Australia has launched a new domestic airfare sale, ahead of the anticipated relaxation of state border restrictions, and the busy summer travel season.

Australia’s restart of international travel could be delayed by months due to a “torrential exit” of skilled ground services workers from aviation,  industry bodies told the Senate on Monday.

Australian Aviation photographer Craig Murray has captured the moment an Antonov An-124 took off from Brisbane Airport on Saturday, bound for Rockhampton, after being chartered from Singapore.

Qantas delivered over 450,000 additional doses of the Pfizer vaccine from the UK to Australia on Sunday night, just days after Prime Minister Scott Morrison struck a new deal to add 4 million doses to Australia’s supply.

The Brazilian planemaker’s subsidiary Eve said its deal with Microflite will lay the foundations and “validate parameters” so electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) vehicles can launch in just five years’ time.

According to the ATSB’s preliminary report into the incident, the aircraft was fully intact prior to the collision, and there was no evidence of pre-impact defects with the aircraft’s flight controls, aircraft structure, or engine.