Jake Nelson

Complementing its existing lounge in the international terminal, Plaza Premium Group’s new lounge in Adelaide’s domestic terminal opened this week. The company also operates international lounges in Sydney, Melbourne, and Brisbane.

In a newly-released study, the national transport safety watchdog examined 79 balloon occurrences reported to it between 2024 and 2022, and found that ballooning “carried a higher risk to fare paying passengers” than flights in other aircraft, with landing the riskiest phase.

Speaking to Airfinance Global this month, Nick Swenson, chief executive at the US-based aviation firm, said Air T will focus on stabilising the ship and does not plan to drastically overhaul the regional carrier’s business model following the approval by creditors of its $170 million takeover bid.

Four people were killed and six others injured on 2 January 2023 when two EC130 helicopters collided mid-air minutes away from Surfers Paradise. On the opening day of the inquest, several videos were shown of the moment of the crash, which had been filmed by witnesses on their smartphones.

The aircraft accompanied Navy Anzac-class frigate HMAS Ballarat and the other nations in the Indo-Pacific Quad partnership for the joint exercises, which took place between 10 and 18 November in the training area around Guam and the West Pacific.

NexGen firefighting upgrades in Queensland and Victoria, including Cairns, Rockhampton and Mackay, as well as remediation of per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) “forever chemicals” in Rockhampton, have both been recommended in the committee’s latest report.