The snap decision by the government meant two Air New Zealand flights from Auckland were cancelled as well as a Qatar Airways flight from Doha.
Premier Steven Marshall has hinted he could take a more lenient approach with NSW and the ACT, who have fared better in restricting community transmission.
Qantas will remove the buffet from its lounges when 11 reopen on 1 July – but has come up with a host of innovative solutions to make them COVID-safe.
Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews has requested all flights to Melbourne be diverted for the next fortnight as the state battles to get to grips with an apparent second spike of coronavirus cases. The announcement came just hours after Queensland said it open its borders to all states except Victoria, and South Australia U-turned and insisted
An Antonov AN-124 Ruslan landed at Auckland Airport on Saturday to deliver new engines for Air New Zealand’s 787 Dreamliner fleet. Stuff reports that the enormous Soviet-era jet carried four engines, two were new leases from Rolls-Royce, while the other had undergone maintenance work in Singapore. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.
The current chair of Virgin Australia, Elizabeth Bryan, will launch a withering broadside at former chief executive John Borghetti, claiming he built a good airline but not a “good enough business”. In an interview set to screen on the ABC’s Four Corners on Monday night, Bryan will say, “When I arrived at the airline, a