Jake Nelson

The Chilean carrier will increase its non-stop Sydney–Santiago flights from three to seven days a week starting in November, with Melbourne to follow in December. Both schedules will run until March next year to coincide with the South American summer peak.

The low-cost carrier, which in 2014 axed a Darwin–Manila service launched several years prior, is looking to fly from Perth to Manila and Brisbane to Cebu using its A321neo LR fleet, having received approval from Australia’s International Air Services Commission in April.

The Australian Financial Review has reported that Anchorage Capital Advisors, which has in the past recapitalised businesses such as Slater & Gordon and Alinta Energy, was among the firms that bid on Rex before binding offers closed last week.

Announced by NSW Minister for Health Ryan Park, the funding will go to support the RFDS’ continued delivery of “comprehensive health services to rural, regional and remote NSW”.

Flight QF2, operated by A380 VH-OQB, was forced to land at Baku’s Heydar Aliyev International Airport at around 7:55am local time after a female passenger in her 60s suffered a “life-threatening cardiac event” en route from London, as reported by the ABC.

Warrant Officer Russell Grigg (navigator) and Warrant Officer Clement Wiggins (pilot), who died when their aircraft Beaufort A9-186 went down off the coast of Papua New Guinea in September 1943, were interred last month at Bomana War Cemetery.