Australian Aviation

Perth Airport became Australia’s busiest airport for domestic operations in August 2021, while the usual pre-COVID number one, Sydney fell out of the top 10 entirely.

Just 23,000 domestic passengers passed through Sydney Airport in September, down 97.4 per cent since June this year before the east coast’s Delta strain outbreak took hold in Sydney, and later Melbourne.

In this episode of the Australian Aviation Podcast, host Adam Thorn and reporters Hannah Dowling and Bella Richards discuss the NSW Premier’s bombshell announcement to drop all quarantine requirements for returning overseas travellers.

Qantas has been charged with discriminatory conduct and alleged breaches of workplace health and safety laws after it stood down an employee who raised concerns about the risk of COVID-19, while cleaning aircraft inbound from China in early 2020.

Brisbane Airport has warned that foreign airlines may exit the Queensland market in favour of other states due to ongoing “profit-killing” passenger caps.

Defence suspended all MH-60R helicopter operations as a precaution last week, following a flight incident that saw three aircrew ditch their Seahawk in the Philippine Sea on 13 October during a routine flight.