Australian Aviation

The Freshwater poll for The Australian Financial Review, which surveyed 1,061 voters, showed around 48 per cent agreed Qantas and Jetstar should be broken up “in order to increase competition between airlines”.

The NSW National Parks and Wildlife Service (NPWS) has awarded a major tender to Sphere Drones for its HubX mobile drone platform, which will initially be deployed across national parks and reserves including Yiraaldiya, Tugalong, Nattai, Yathong, and Kosciuszko.

The group – which comprises Webjet, motorhome and car rental e-commerce site GoSee, and travel tech company Trip Ninja – has entered the stock market after splitting from parent company WEB Travel Group Limited, with more than 97 per cent of shareholders voting in favour.

Joel Neeb, a former F-15 pilot, discusses how he rose to become the US’ most senior Top Gun instructor.

Ted Colbert III, who took over Boeing Defense and Space in 2022, has been temporarily replaced by the division’s chief operating officer Steve Parker while the company looks for his replacement.

Bob Walker is the engineering director of Qantas. An aeronautical engineering graduate of the University of Sydney, he joined Qantas in 1949 as a performance and structures engineer. Since then he has held various senior positions within the airline’s engineering and maintenance division. He was the technical development manager during the Boeing 747 acquisition programme