CASA has granted approval for MRO Premiair to service all Cessna, Beechcraft and Hawker turbine aircraft models in Australia.
It comes despite Morrison playing down the plans last month, arguing the current system, using commercial hotels, was “99.99 per cent effective”.
The US Navy has awarded a $10 million contract extension to Sikorsky Australia for the local sustainment of RAN’s fleet of 24 MH-60R Romeo multi-mission helicopters.
It was also revealed that the Chief of Air Force will become the Defence Space Domain lead, overseeing a division that will also work with personnel from Army and Navy.
It comes as the organisation released new research showing 70 per cent of passengers would change their plans to travel from an unsubsidised to subsidised location.
Graham Turner said Virgin CEO Jayne Hrdlicka’s words on Monday “don’t sound callous to me” and argued her comments were “quite well said”.