Last month, Australia saw 21,076 total international flights, up 5 per cent year-on-year and 11.8 per cent month-on-month, while domestic flights declined 2 per cent year-on-year to 91,547, according to Airservices’ Australian Aviation Network Overview report for December 2024.
The hacker, known as natohub, said on 6 January that he was “sharing a data leak from ICAO” and selling “42k documents of users data”.
Only 1.8 per cent of flights were cancelled in October 2024, around half the rate of October 2023, as detailed in Airservices’ latest Australian Aviation Network Overview report for November, though on-time performance still lags the rest of the world.
Workers were due to take industrial action on Wednesday, but have won an in-principle agreement that will see an 11 per cent pay rise over two years as well as improvements to rostering and working conditions. Ninety-eight per cent of workers voted in favour of strikes in a ballot filed in October.
According to data released by Flight Centre’s Corporate Traveller division, corporate travel to regional Australia increased by 13 per cent year on year in the September 2024 quarter, with Mackay, Newcastle, Cairns, Townsville, and the Gold Coast among the top regional destinations.
A new campaign, which features disability rights campaigner Shane Hryhorec as well as support from Sophie Morgan of Rights on Flights, looks to raise awareness of “systemic issues in air travel that result in mistreatment, discrimination, and dangerous situations for disabled passengers”.