Weeks after Jetstar unveiled a new overhead baggage fee, the Australian Services Union said its members will waive a range of fees as they push for higher pay

Qatar Airways has lost the title of world’s best airline at the 2026 World Airline Awards, in a year when the highly regarded Middle East carrier has been disrupted by conflict in its region.

Business class should feel like an indulgent, comfortable treat. By no stretch of the imagination could this be considered as such.

Prices for petrol, diesel and jet fuel have been escalating as the war drags on.

Years after the airline illegally sacked them, workers received about $2000 for each full year of service. The payment marks the beginning of the end of a long and distressing saga.

Former Qantas captain David Evans said that from the video footage the “flames and ‘popping’ sounds heard indicate disrupted airflow through the jet engine”.

Flames burst from the Qantas plane engine after take-off from Queenstown, forcing an emergency landing.

The plane is expected to depart San Francisco for Melbourne in a few hours, bringing the NFL team to the city ahead of its game against the Los Angeles Rams.

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A recent spike in traffic on Russia’s southern border comes amid increasingly aggressing recruitment measures and worries of another military call-up.

While the aviation industry has faced a fuel price shock in March, Virgin hedged both crude oil and the more volatile jet fuel refining margins.

The company said its fuel bill jumped by over $600 million.

The pilots say the bottleneck is slowing international flights from getting to gates during peak morning hours.

A digital trail of evidence and political and church insiders have revealed how the wealthy Christian sect mobilised influencers around the country to track and heckle candidates.

Investigators are examining an incident on Tuesday where two Qantas flights were given clearance to take clashing routes.

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The incident, also involving a Qantas 737, is the third such occurrence in Sydney airport in under three weeks, with links to air traffic control.

Former employees and insiders say there is a deeper reason for the delays and dysfunction at Australia’s airports.

The budget airline will fly to Ho Chi Minh City and has also applied to run thousands of domestic flights a year from Sydney Kingsford Smith Airport.

You still see youngish folk blundering about in batik shorts, sporting backpacks and unkempt hair. But they aren’t really backpackers – they’re just wannabes.

Airbus said the aircraft remained in the air for 24 hours and 24 minutes, covering 23,075 km without stopping, before landing at the plane’s factory in Toulouse, France.

The 1820 workers, who won a High Court fight on their way to $160 million worth of payouts, are still waiting for the money to hit their accounts.

The billionaire landed, appeared at a restaurant near Coogee beach a mere hour later, then jetted off after a 43-hour stay.

While DFAT has not increased the travel warning for the Gulf countries, one expert said it’s “fair to assume” that could come next.

China is preparing to test-fire a nuclear-capable long-range missile with a dummy warhead in the South Pacific in the next 24 hours, diplomats in the region have been told.