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| UpdatedA major fuel shortage at Melbourne Airport could cause flight delays and force some international flights to divert and re-fuel as early as this afternoon.
Topics: air-transport, business-economics-and-finance, industry, melbourne-3000, australia, vic, tullamarine-3043
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| UpdatedLufthansa cancels hundreds of flights as its pilots stage a 48-hour walkout, the latest disruption to its operations in a long-running pay dispute.
Topics: air-transport, industry, travel-and-tourism, unions, germany
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A Sydney airline ordered to compensate nurse Karen Casey millions of dollars for post-traumatic stress disorder linked to a 2009 plane crash appeals against the decision.
Topics: accidents, air-transport, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, sydney-2000, norfolk-island-2899
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| UpdatedWork on the Sunshine Coast's new $347 million international airport will begin early next year after the Federal Government approved a $181 million concessional loan for a new runway and terminal.
Topics: air-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, marcoola-4564, maroochydore-4558
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| UpdatedThe ATSB says contaminated fuel caused a fatal helicopter crash on a Northern Territory cattle station in 2015.
Topics: air-transport, accidents---other, beef-cattle, darwin-0800
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Regional airline Rex warns it could cut jobs and flights in Wagga Wagga because of a "loss of faith" in the city council.
Topics: air-transport, wagga-wagga-2650
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Federal Environment Minister Josh Frydenberg is confident Sydney's second airport can proceed after a string of conditions were placed on its development, minimising noise and addressing biodiversity and heritage concerns.
Topics: environment, environmental-impact, federal---state-issues, government-and-politics, air-transport, badgerys-creek-2171
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| UpdatedThe Australian Federal Police launch an investigation into 15 hoax calls made to planes and air traffic control over a two-week period, one of which caused a passenger flight to abort landing as it approached Melbourne Airport.
Topics: air-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, law-crime-and-justice, melbourne-3000, vic, australia
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Flight Centre shares slump as the travel agent says record low airfares, subdued trading and lower-than-expected profits for its touring businesses will hit its bottom line.
Topics: company-news, tourism, air-transport, business-economics-and-finance, stockmarket, australia
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| UpdatedIt is unlikely missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 was in a controlled descent when it crashed, according to a new report by Australian investigators who have examined the debris.
Topics: air-and-space, death, air-transport, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, malaysia, asia, australia, canberra-2600, act
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| UpdatedAfter refusing for more than year to provide any corporate records to assist compensation claim against it, Malaysia Airlines is suddenly changing course and agreeing to hand over almost all of the documents it has been so desperate to keep secret.
Topics: air-and-space, death, air-transport, courts-and-trials, law-crime-and-justice, malaysia, asia, australia
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| UpdatedAir traffic controllers and some pilots are raising serious safety concerns over plans to axe 900 jobs at Airservices Australia, the organisation controlling skies at the country's major airports.
Topics: air-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, federal-government, government-and-politics, australia
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Topics: rural, agribusiness, dairy-production, trade, air-transport, hobart-7000
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| UpdatedBritain gives Heathrow Airport the green light to build a new $28.8-billion runway.
Topics: industry, air-transport, world-politics, united-kingdom
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| UpdatedBritain gives Heathrow Airport the green light to build a new $28.8-billion runway, ending 25 years of indecision and vowing to boost global trade links following the vote to leave the European Union.
Topics: air-transport, world-politics, united-kingdom
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More than 60 potential young fighter pilots take to the virtual skies as the Royal Australian Air Force's travelling flight simulator visits central Queensland.
Topics: air-force, vocational, air-transport, rockhampton-4700
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A central Queensland real estate agent is using a drone to let prospective buyers inspect properties remotely.
Topics: air-transport, agricultural-machinery, computers-and-technology, rockhampton-4700
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| UpdatedA National Party MP from northern New South Wales has listed a number of possible solutions to problems with regional airlines getting landing slots at Kingsford Smith Airport in Sydney.
Topics: air-transport, regional, regional-development, tamworth-2340
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| UpdatedThe Senate looks set to hold an inquiry into the use of drones, which will examine air safety and the role remotely piloted aircraft can play in industries such as agriculture.
Topics: air-transport, industry, business-economics-and-finance, science-and-technology, australia