Jake Nelson

The FIFO, wet lease and charter operator in earnings guidance this month said it expected its EBITDA for the year ending 30 June 2026 to be “materially lower than analyst consensus estimates”, at around $190–$210 million.

One thousand new seats will be added across the airport’s international and domestic terminals, alongside runway lighting upgrades, new security equipment, CCTV, new control tower water connections, and an extra 500 parking spaces.

The planemaker is pouring more than US$1 billion into the project, which will include a new final assembly building, parts preparation area facility, vertical fin paint facility, flight line stalls, and additions to the interior components manufacturing facilities.

China’s second-largest carrier will fly three times per week return from Shanghai to Adelaide starting in mid-2026 using wide-body aircraft. It is the first non-stop connection between the world’s third-largest city and South Australia.

The low-cost carrier will launch new flights from Avalon to Bali next March, along with restoring its former Avalon–Adelaide service and rolling out more capacity to Brisbane. It is the first time international flights will have operated from Avalon since early 2020.

VH-YVD had just landed in Brisbane at around 7pm on flight VA454 from Darwin when its brakes caught alight, with firefighters quickly moving to extinguish the blaze.