International passenger numbers at the airport have decreased by 7.1 per cent between April 2025 and April 2026, alongside a 67.6 per cent drop in seats from the Middle East in the same period.
After flying in from Malaysia, the man was arrested by the Australian Federal Police’s National Security Investigations team for allegedly possessing “violent extremist material”.
Zinc Airlines, a project by Peter Kelly, who ran both Ansett’s Golden Wing Club and Qantas Frequent Flyer and helped establish Jetstar before moving into aviation consulting, is seeking to raise $200 million for what is described as a business model patterned on Ryanair.
Services from both Melbourne and Adelaide to Bali will be axed from 18 June, with Captain Achmad Sadikin Abdurachman, general manager of Indonesia AirAsia, saying the decision was “not made lightly, but the current operating environment has made these routes no longer viable”.
The Flying Kangaroo topped the table in the Southwest Pacific, behind only SAS Scandinavian Airlines in the global stakes, with 87.77 per cent of flights arriving on time last month and 1.75 per cent cancelled. The carrier had placed third globally in January.
The first of its kind in the Southern Hemisphere, the facility will become a regional hub for the maintenance and sustainment of aircraft for the Australian Defence Force.