Jake Nelson

Carbonix’s Volanti drones are being used to pinpoint deeply-hidden root fires under the soil in Quebec, which threaten to reignite wildfires after suppression teams have moved on.

The proposal would give general aviation pilots a new corridor in class G airspace, giving them a more direct route to Bankstown from the southeast and relieving congestion in the north and west.

The mistake last week, blamed on a ‘coding error’, saw first-class tickets to the US published for sale at around an 85 per cent discount, and remained up for eight hours before being corrected.

The Chinese carrier will operate four weekly 787-9 flights starting 17 December, ahead of Melbourne on 19 December. It will be the ninth concurrent mainland Chinese carrier to fly into Sydney, and will add 53,000 weekly seats, pushing mainland China capacity to 101 per cent of pre-COVID levels.

Hong Kong Airlines will fly four times per week between the Gold Coast and Hong Kong from 17 January to 15 February 2025, and is expected to deliver around 6,000 inbound seats to the Gold Coast over the five-week period.

Singapore Airlines (SIA) has confirmed it will fly from the 24-hour greenfield airport when it opens in 2026, connecting WSI non-stop to Singapore Changi Airport. The announcement follows a memorandum of understanding signed between WSI and SIA in 2023.