Jake Nelson

All passengers on flight JQ785 from the Sunshine Coast to Sydney last Tuesday, 9 May were forced to deplane following 45 minutes on the tarmac, check in again, and pass through security a second time after the man, believed to be between age 18 and 25, boarded the A320-200 without a ticket.

The $2.6 billion Sydney Gateway project has laid the last of the 86 steel girders on the flyover bridge into the airport’s domestic terminals, which will separate drivers going to the airport from those bound for Mascot and Port Botany.

Working with creative agency The Monkeys, the Flying Kangaroo has shot a new ad with real footage of a mother of four being reunited with her adult son, who has been living in Japan since before the pandemic, on her 60th birthday.

The incident on 29 April occurred when a flight departing for Brisbane was cleared to take off on Sydney’s parallel runway 16L at the same time as a flight arriving from Queenstown was landing. Each plane was carrying around 170 passengers.

The 4Cyte clinic in the international terminal is set to close at 6pm today, following the closure of the Histopath clinic last Friday. The two clinics tested 147,244 passengers between them over the past 18 months.

Virgin’s shareholders – including Bain, the Virgin Group, and Queensland Investment Corp – will each take a share of a $730 million capital return proportionate to their stakes in the airline, or 93 per cent, five per cent, and two per cent respectively.