A graveyard has filled with airline groups that have tried and failed to challenge the duopoly in the skies,from Compass to Tiger Airways and Bonza. Rex is just the latest.
The airline has cancelled all flights between major airports after halting its domestic 737 services,prompting Virgin and Qantas to offer free rebooking for Rex customers.
An underground station should not be built at Melbourne Airport unless the airport operators show it makes commercial sense,a federal report has found.
This time Qatar has a lot more support for gaining extra flights to Australia. A conga line of competition economists and tourism operators will be watching closely.
Lord Mayor Adrian Schrinner has celebrated this week’s installation of the final span of the long-anticipated bridge ahead of its opening this year.
Anthony Albanese’s ministers have portfolios – they also have other roles:confidantes,influencers,attack dogs. And some are more equal than others.
Australia’s biggest airlines are inching towards support for a customer ombudsman that would deal with passenger complaints and compensation claims.
The state and federal Labor governments have defended their staged approach to delivering the Sunshine Coast rail line,amid LNP claims it would turn Caloundra into a “car park”.
The extra funding,to be announced in Tuesday’s budget,will take the federal contribution to $2.75 billion – just a fraction of the $12 billion to complete the planned line.
Next week’s federal budget will feature extra money for the blown-out road project,bringing the Commonwealth’s contribution to $5 billion.
The airline’s boss Tim Jordan confirmed all Bonza flights have been grounded ahead of the company’s voluntary administration filing.