South Australia Police (SAPOL) today released footage of a PolAir helicopter being lasered on Friday 20 November 2020. The incident occurred just before 10:30pm near the southern Adelaide suburb of Woodcroft. SAPOL say the laser was pointed at the helicopter on a number of occasions. Officers onboard were able to locate the source of…
Speaking on Australian tv show A current Affair, Alan Joyce, the CEO of Qantas, has confirmed that the airline will change it’s terms and conditions. The change will ask all international travelers to have a COVID vaccine before getting onboard their aircraft. Mr Joyce also believes vaccinations will be a “common theme” across the entire…
Virgin Australia has launched a new advertising campaign – it’s first since entering Administration in April of this year. The campaign involves 2020 America’s Got Talent finalist, Annie Jones, dancing in an empty airport. The sale of Virgin Australia to Bain Capital will be finalised on 17 November
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) today released a report into a near miss between a Virgin Australia ATR72 and a Piper PA-28. The two aircraft came within 22 metres of each other on approach into Albury Airport on 19 October last year. The Virgin ATR had 2 flight crew, 2 cabin crew and 66…
ABC News Australia and The Guardian Australia are reporting that Qatar will refer the officials involved in the forced examinations of women at the Hamad International Airport to prosecutors. The Qatari government also stated that those involved did not follow standard procedures and their actions were “illegal”. In a preliminary report on the incident…
Female passengers on 10 planes flying out of Doha were forced to endure invasive physical examinations, Australia’s foreign minister said Wednesday, greatly expanding the number of women previously thought affected. It was revealed on Sunday that women were removed from a Sydney-bound Qatar Airways flight in Doha earlier this month and forced to undergo vaginal…
Virgin Australia administrators, Deloitte. have agreed to sell the airline to Bain Capital after the only other remaining bidder, Cyrus Capital Partners, pulled out of the sale process. Cyrus cited lack of engagement from the administration as the reason for their withdrawal. In a statement Cyrus said, “On the morning of 22 June 2020, Cyrus…
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has announced today that Qantas will be a smaller airline for the foreseeable future. He has also announced the axing of 6000 jobs with another 15000 staff stood down, more aircraft retirements and almost no international travel until July 2021. Those stood down will be stood down without pay. The redundancies…
Virgin Australia bondholders have made an 11th hour bid to try to recapitalise the airline, two days after Administrators Deloitte received final offers from the two final bidders, Bain Capital and Cyrus Capital Partners. Under the bondholders proposal they would recaptilise the airline to the value of $800 million with an additional $125 million to…
Local media is reporting that Deloitte have narrowed Virgin Australia’s potential buyers down to two – Bain Capital and Cyrus Capital Partners. The original shortlist also included US based budget airline investor Indigo Partners and Australian company BGH Capital. Bain Capital has $US105 billion ($A155 billion) in assets under management and has former Jetstar chief…
Airservices Australia released a report from former Sex Discrimination Commissioner Elizabeth Broderick today. ABC Australia reports the “A Review of Culture at Airservices Australia” report was commissioned to study the internal culture at the government owned organisation. “Specifically relating to bullying, harassment, sexual harassment, psychological welfare and inclusion.” The report found a “Lord of the…
Virgin Australia’s Administrators have shortlisted 4 potential buyers for the airline. The list was whittled down from at least 8 non-binding bids that were received on Friday. ABC News reports the shortlisted buyers are US private investment firm Bain Capital, Australian private equity firm BGH Capital, US airline investor Indigo Partners and global investor Cyrus…
