The Board of Airline Representatives of Australia (BARA) said there has been “limited engagement” with governments to adapt COVID mitigation measures to accommodate more than a handful of arrivals at airports.
Aviation enthusiast Rod Knights has completed his 12-year mission to recover A20-714, which ditched in the lake during a low training flyover in 1950.
The event will celebrate the achievements of two years’ worth of inductees, including ‘Father of the RAAF’ Sir Richard Williams; Australia’s first female pilot for a major airline, Deborah Lawrie; and Basil South Brown, a co-founder of East West Airlines.
The letter, organised via the Parents Are Immediate Family advocacy group, argues that it is “abhorrent” that the government has not announced a specific plan to reunite families kept apart by closed international borders.
The state's premier, Mark McGowan, said the new helicopter will replace the Eurocopter Dauphin AS365 that has been operating in its fleet since 2011.
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has again suggested that the Qantas model makes it one of the few airlines internationally that can successfully sustain the Airbus A380 in the post-COVID world.