Category: Industry

New Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) director of aviation safety (DAS) Mark Skidmore AM has laid out five key principles that he says will guide the regulator’s dealings with the aviation community. While safety was CASA’s most important consideration, Skidmore says clear communication, minimising the financial impact of regulatory actions, reducing complexity and having a

Australian spending on leisure-related travel has not recovered since the federal budget was handed down in May, a leading travel agent group says. Flight Centre says trading conditions in Australia over the first five months of 2014/15 have been challenging, given the lack of uptick in leisure travel spending. This content is available exclusively to

Badly needed reforms to the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) have taken a “critical first step” with the appointment of three new directors to the board, an aviation industry group says. Aerial Agricultural Association of Australia (AAAA) chief executive Phil Hurst says the addition of Anita Taylor, Ian Smith and Murray Warfield to what will

The federal government has accepted all but five of the 37 recommendations from the Aviation Safety Regulatory Review (ASRR) and called for Australia’s aviation regulators to work more closely together and improve their relationship with industry. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Infrastructure and Regional Development Warren Truss says the ASRR report, which was written