The union has accused Qantas and its ground-handling partner, Swissport, of “Joyce-era tactics” and “dangerously low standards” in pay, conditions, and safety. Members picketed at Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, and Perth Airports on Thursday.
Now in its third year, the Australian AI Awards has become the country’s premier recognition program for excellence in artificial intelligence, celebrating the people, organisations and technologies shaping the future of one of Australia’s fastest-growing industries.
The federal government and Qantas will expand the current pilot program for the digital Australia Travel Declaration (ATD) to cities including Perth and Adelaide by the end of this year, before phasing the ATD in across “all international airports and seaports” over the next 12 to 18 months.
The US is advancing efforts to introduce civil supersonic flights across the country, more than twenty years after the Concorde aircraft was retired. The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) announced last week that the United States is “taking a pivotal step” in bringing supersonic flights to American skies. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation
Set to take place on Thursday, 6 August at The Star, Sydney, the summit will convene leaders from airlines, airports, government, and the broader aviation ecosystem to tackle the defining challenges reshaping Australian aviation.
In its Australian Aviation Network Overview report for May 2026, Airservices Australia said that while aviation had shown “ongoing resilience and flexibility” during the Iran conflict, the war had caused “real pressure on the sector” as it stretched past 100 days.