Australian Aviation

It comes only months after the carrier closed its pilot base in Australia, leading to 120 roles being under threat unless employees made the decision to relocate to Hong Kong.

Air New Zealand has added an additional 31 new ‘red’ flights from Australia to New Zealand in December, in anticipation that the trans-Tasman bubble remains paused until after Christmas.

Despite Qantas abandoning flights between Perth and the eastern states until April 2022 due to Western Australia’s ongoing hard border with NSW, Victoria and Queensland, Jetstar’s sale offerings includes flights between Perth and Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne.

Australian Aviation photographer Craig Murray captured these incredible shots of a RAAF C-17 Globemaster III performing its planned flyover of the Brisbane CBD.

Pilots at QantasLink have become the first major unionised cohort within the Qantas Group to accept a two-year wage freeze in light of the effect of the COVID pandemic on the industry.

Qantas has announced a slew of changes to its flying schedule in light of the current state of domestic borders, delaying all services from Western Australia to the eastern states until February, and putting the flagship London-Perth service on hold.