Jake Nelson

Speaking at the Australian Aviation Summit in one of his first major public appearances since leaving the Flying Kangaroo in 2023, Joyce said resilience in the aviation industry often requires making “unpopular” short-term decisions to ensure long-term survival.

The 41-year-old Victorian man is facing charges of creating a disturbance at an airport and obstructing, hindering, intimidating or resisting a Commonwealth official over the alleged incident in the T2 domestic terminal at around 6am on 13 August.

Speaking to ABC Radio in Coffs Harbour this week, Minister King said there have been several ideas floated to address the problem of high regional airfares, but “none of them are easy”.

The Flying Kangaroo will between June and October next year fly daily from Sydney to New York – up from five days per week – for the first time since COVID-19, with its A380s also making a return to Sydney-Dallas on Monday and its 787-9s to Brisbane-Los Angeles on Wednesday.

Speaking to Australian Aviation, WSI CEO Simon Hickey said passengers should be able to easily reach St Marys from the airport and vice versa with or without the metro. It comes as works proceed on the platforms for the metro station outside the terminal.

In a brief judgment, Australia’s highest court rejected an appeal by Corporate Air Charter Pty Ltd of a ruling by the Full Federal Court that standby duty counts as “work”, and must therefore be included in calculations of pilots’ average weekly work hours.