Australian Aviation

Carly Povey, Bonza’s chief commercial officer, said more than two-thirds of users responding to a question on the airline’s new app said they wanted local over global flavours.

Qantas said the route cause of the problem stemmed from a combination of flying returning following COVID and customers confused as to how to spend their accrued flight credits.  

Shane Tobin, a Qantas pilot and co-founder of UPRT Australia, a company that teaches pilots to prevent and recover from a loss of control in flight, said the current “lack of experience” in the industry calls for more of this training, especially middle level carriers.

The Flying Kangaroo paid $60 million in 2019 but its stock is now worth more than $90 after the smaller airline became one of the industry’s pandemic success stories.

New organisers Touchpoint hope the leg will attract 150,000 people at the location, which has yet to be announced.

The new generation payload can travel at five times the speed of sound and are near impossible to track with existing radars.