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Speaking to Murray Jones on 4CA Cairns on Tuesday, Minister King mentioned the industry’s ongoing skills shortage, saying airlines had let staff go and many people had not returned to aviation, and added that this was also a problem at Airservices.

Airlines

The partnership with Enterprise, which has flown Antarctic services in a fleet of DHC-6 Twin Otter and DC-3T Basler aircraft since 2001, follows a similar announcement earlier this month of an exclusive partnership with Helicopter Resources Pty Ltd.

Defence

Australia’s first dedicated coating facility, specialising in applying stealth paint to the aircraft, will be built in partnership with BAE Systems Australia and responsible for the maintenance, repair, overhaul, and upgrade activities for Australia’s fleet of 72 F-35A aircraft.

Airlines

Malaysia Airlines flight MH122 was en route to Kuala Lumpur when a passenger allegedly became belligerent and claimed to have explosives, causing the plane to return to Sydney at around 3:45pm. Police arrested him without incident, and all passengers and crew disembarked safely.

Airports

Western Australia’s main gateway surpassed 14 million passengers in the 2022–23 financial year, down just two per cent on FY2019. This was driven in no small part by a huge boost in regional aviation traffic, with both May and June 2023 seeing record regional passenger numbers.

Airports

Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth Airports all lost money on aeronautical services last year, with Melbourne down the most at 38.8 per cent, and Perth the least at 0.05 per cent. Sydney and Brisbane recorded losses of 27.4 per cent and 5.9 per cent respectively.

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