Tourism Minister Simon Birmingham appeared to criticise Queensland Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk suggestion that her state’s borders may remain closed until September.
Air New Zealand will restart its Wellington to Queenstown route on 28 May and add additional flights between Auckland and Queenstown due to strong demand.
The airline is insisting it is reluctant to keep the middle seat free when recreational domestic travel resumes in July, reversing an earlier policy introduced in late April.
The Qantas Group has updated its flight cancellation policy, as it gears up for a return to recreational domestic flying in July.
A 30-year Qantas veteran undergoing cancer treatment is among a group of workers to have lost a case in the Federal Court against the airline for denying them sick leave during the coronavirus pandemic.
The pilot of a home-built Osprey 2 amphibious aircraft that crashed into a backyard in the Hunter Region of NSW has been named as a Royal Newcastle Aero Club member.