Jake Nelson

Rob Sharp, who left Virgin in 2019 as part of a management restructure, was CEO of Tigerair for four years before becoming Virgin’s group executive for airlines. After Virgin, he served as secretary of Transport for NSW from 2021–23, and will now serve a 12-month term at Airservices.

The TWU says the four-hour flight, which carried the Fremantle Dockers AFL team home from Launceston to Perth on Saturday, 13 July, ran out of water after around half an hour, disabling the toilets and posing a “significant health and safety risk”.

The Australian company, part-owned by Rex, unveiled the powertrain at an event in Seville, the first of its kind in Spain. The system demonstrated in Seville was designed for a Beechcraft King Air, and comes after Dovetail had been on the hunt for a European location since 2022.

The survey, launched earlier this week, is looking to gauge customer interest in Perth flights among customers in the Newcastle and Hunter region, and has already attracted more than 4,500 responses; it also asks about interest in potential flights to Europe.

In a draft conclusion, the NZ Commerce Commission (NZCC) came out in support of Auckland Airport’s infrastructure investments, but questioned the airport’s revenue and targeted returns.

The low-cost carrier is now behind only Qantas as it grew 149 per cent internationally in Brisbane over the past year, thanks to a massive ramp-up in Asia flights and a boost in services to Auckland.