Health and safety concerns are driving new solutions Will COVID-19 create a tiltrotor market in Australia?  At present, medical services in remote tourist areas are adequate for most of the ‘Grey Nomads’ traditionally heading ‘out bush’, to the centre of Australia. The Royal Flying Doctor Service and other small jet aeromedical services are often tasked

How freight could help the sector The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been unprecedented on a global scale. The consequences have been wide reaching, particularly for aviation. Globally, the aviation industry is expected to lose more than US$84 billion in 2020. Arguably, the challenge for eVTOL companies is even harder. The industry is still

Surviving a pandemic COVID-19 has devastated aviation. The unprecedented global health crisis, coupled with wide-scale border closures, has disrupted transportation in a way never before seen in most of our lifetimes.  COVID’s impact is global, and Australia is by no means immune. Strict border controls – first international and then domestic – have helped to

The airline has taken its biggest gamble – and not changed that much On 25 June, Qantas announced it was to make 6,000 employees, or around 20 per cent of its workforce, redundant. The numbers didn’t come as much of a surprise but unions were, predictably, livid. Shortly after the business revealed the plans to