A snapshot of some of the funding measures around airports and aviation in the 2019/20 federal budget handed down in Canberra on Tuesday, April 2 2019.
The government is on track to lift Defence funding to the fabled two per cent of gross domestic product (GDP) in 2020/21, the federal budget papers show.
Virgin Australia says Qantas's argument its proposed codeshare with Cathay Pacific would not reduce competition is simplistic and incorrect.
The US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) says it expects to receive the final version of Boeing's 737 MAX software update "over the coming weeks".
The founder of Russian airline S7 and one of the country's richest people Natalia Fileva has died after her private aircraft crashed in Germany.
Virgin Australia will add its VA airline code on Hawaiian Airlines' Brisbane-Honolulu nonstop flight as part of an expanded partnership between the two carriers.