The proposal would give general aviation pilots a new corridor in class G airspace, giving them a more direct route to Bankstown from the southeast and relieving congestion in the north and west.

The mistake last week, blamed on a ‘coding error’, saw first-class tickets to the US published for sale at around an 85 per cent discount, and remained up for eight hours before being corrected.

The Chinese carrier will operate four weekly 787-9 flights starting 17 December, ahead of Melbourne on 19 December. It will be the ninth concurrent mainland Chinese carrier to fly into Sydney, and will add 53,000 weekly seats, pushing mainland China capacity to 101 per cent of pre-COVID levels.

Virgin Australia’s Chief Corporate Affairs, Christian Bennett, will join Google Wing’s Jesse Suskin and the TWU’s Emily McMillan on Thursday to discuss the long-awaited report.