Australian Aviation

Of the four Public Transport Victoria bus routes available, only the 902 operates after 7:45pm or more than once an hour, and many residents of surrounding suburbs have poor access to airport buses despite the airport employing more than 18,000 people.

The route, launching on 9 December, will initially fly five return services per week, increasing to daily from March 2025. The flights are expected to add more than 60,000 seats between Darwin and Singapore per year, and offer easier access from the Northern Territory to destinations in Europe and Asia.

The two jets, formerly owned by the Republic of Singapore Air Force, crashed in Port Phillip Bay on 19 November 2023, killing two men on board one of the aircraft.

The consumer watchdog is calling on customers who held tickets on cancelled Qantas flights scheduled to depart between 1 May 2022 and 31 July 2022 to fill out an online survey regarding the details of cancelled flights, how and when customers were notified, and how they were affected.

The deal will see engineering firm KBR support the surveillance aircraft’s aeronautical and geospatial requirements alongside its mission planning.

In its first full year of unrestricted travel since COVID-19, New Zealand’s flag carrier transported 15.9 million passengers and operated 169,835 domestic and international flights, up from 12.3 million passengers and 152,000 flights in 2022.