Dubbed the Clive Berghofer Maintenance Centre, the 5,000-square-metre facility is the largest maintenance base in LifeFlight’s network and the largest hangar at Archerfield, replacing the old LifeFlight maintenance centre built in the 1940s.

In the report, independent business advisor Tom Saar found one root cause of events that damaged Qantas’ reputation in 2023 was “top-down leadership with a dominant and trusted CEO, leading to insufficient listening and low speak up”.

Duncan Milne has been appointed as Babcock Australasia’s managing director aviation and critical services, after two decades of working in senior leadership roles across the aviation and defence industries.

Joyce, who stepped down as CEO in September 2023, around two months before his planned exit, will lose all of his shares from the airline’s Long-Term Incentive Plan (LTIP) – valued at $8.36 million – as well as 33 per cent of his short-term incentives from FY23, or $900,000.