Australian Aviation

The aviation industry is facing an exodus of talent – but without the pipeline of new recruits to replace them. Aviation Australia talks through the problems, and whether the White Paper did enough to fix them.

This issue, a Royal Brunei Airlines Dreamliner eclipsing the sun and a No. 6 Squadron EA-18G Growler conducted aircrew familiarisation flights into Toowoomba.

The Flying Kangaroo is suing Luke Fogarty, its former head of E190 commercial, operations and performance, who left the airline for a senior flight operations role with Virgin in September and is due to start next year following the expiration of a non-compete agreement.

VH-A5A, slated for delivery by the end of the year, was snapped in testing by a planespotter in Europe this week under the test registration F-WWTR. Jetstar currently has 13 A320neos on order up to the 2029 financial year.

In a text message exchange with Sydney radio station 2GB, as reported by The Australian, the Prime Minister’s office said he had never asked then-Qantas CEO Alan Joyce or anyone else at the airline for a free upgrade, following revelations he had accepted a number of upgrades since 2009.

With EY Australia still grappling with the recapitalisation and sale of assets, Justice James Stevenson of the NSW Supreme Court was reluctant to allow plaintiff Jet Midwest to proceed with a claim for damages upwards of $US7.2 million ($11 million).