Australian Aviation

Lockheed Martin, which makes the F-35 Lightning II fighter, was named “preferred tender” on JP 9102 in April 2023 – all but guaranteeing the deal – before it was abruptly dropped, along with scores of smaller firms, in November 2024.

Conducted as part of the Air Force’s first iteration of regional presence deployments for the year, 11 Squadron’s P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance aircraft worked alongside the Royal Australian Navy destroyer HMAS Hobart in the South China Sea on maritime domain awareness operations.

The Crew-10 capsule, carrying four new astronauts, docked with the ISS on Saturday evening and will return to Earth with the original Starliner crew on Wednesday.

The route, commencing 27 June, will operate four times per week on A321neo aircraft, adding around 100,000 seats per year and bringing AirAsia Group’s total weekly Darwin flights to seven. It comes after sister airline Indonesia AirAsia announced a non-stop Denpasar service in January.

According to the ACCC’s latest Airport Monitoring Report, Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth airports collectively invested $985.1 million in aeronautical facilities in 2023–24, more than half of which was accounted for by Melbourne’s $502.3 million.

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth Airports collectively brought in $2.6 billion in 2023-24, up 24.3 per cent from the previous year, though passenger numbers were still 4.7 per cent below 2018-19 levels. Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane also grew their profits from aeronautical activities.