Australian Aviation

Hayley Vale, PHIA’s current head of airport and a finalist in the Australian Aviation Awards 2024 Female Aviation Leader of the Year – Small Business category, will take over from outgoing CEO Dave Batic on 1 January 2025.

Joyce, who stepped down as Qantas CEO two months into the 2023-24 financial year, received just $1 million less than current CEO Vanessa Hudson, Qantas revealed in its annual report. Total executive pay fell to $20.7 million in FY24, down from $35.4 million last year.

The works, which form part of the airport’s $5 billion transformation program, will see the most significant changes to the terminal in its 29 years of operation.

Across 2024–26, Asia Pacific Aerospace will perform a series of overhaul repairs on Black Hawk T700 engines flown by various international users at its regional maintenance facility in Pinkenba, Queensland.

The transport safety watchdog has issued a safety advisory noting that “non-specification rivets” had been installed on the plane, which went down at Jandakot Airport in April, killing its pilot.

Anduril’s Roadrunner is a reusable, modular twin-jet powered autonomous air vehicle capable of operating at high subsonic speed and taking off vertically to identify, track and intercept a wide variety of aerial threats, including Group 3 UAS (and above).