March 2024
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The two tectonic shifts in markets that will decide the next decade
Are we headed for a world of higher rates, lower growth and more volatility, or will AI unleash a deflationary wave?
- James Thomson
November 2023
Sydney Airport will maintain edge over city’s second, outgoing boss says
Geoff Culbert will start his next role as president of the Business Council of Australia in February, but says he won’t be pursuing another executive job.
- Ayesha de Kretser
October 2023
New Business Council president has a ‘secret sauce’
Sydney Airport boss Geoff Culbert has been appointed to the role as the council refreshes its leadership to navigate crucial policy negotiations with the Albanese government.
- John Kehoe
August 2023
Joyce summonsed to cost of living inquiry over high fares
Qantas boss Alan Joyce will appear before a federal parliamentary inquiry for the first time since 2014 to face a grilling over high airfares and competition.
- Ayesha de Kretser
May 2023
- Exclusive
- Airports
Sky-high airfares ‘will come down’, says Sydney Airport boss
Travellers are unlikely to keep paying high airfares on top of bills, putting pressure on airlines to add more seats and discount, Sydney Airport’s boss has forecast.
- Updated
- Jenny Wiggins
June 2022
- Updated
- Air travel
‘There will be queues’: Airport warning for July holidays
Sydney Airport expects the coming travel rush to be even busier than the chaotic scenes of April.
- Lucas Baird
August 2021
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
The CEOs using tech to cut out the middleman
More ASX-listed companies are implementing technologies that bring them closer to their customers to boost sales and avoid scattergun marketing campaigns.
- Tony Boyd
July 2021
COVID-19 cuts $3 million hole in AOC’s pocket
The country’s national Olympic committee has had to cancel two key fundraising events even as it meets extra costs of the pandemic-hit games.
- Michael Bleby
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Chinese geopolitics hover over Sydney Airport bid
China’s belligerent campaign to punish Australian exports seems certain to play a critical role in the $22 billion takeover of Sydney Airport, once the gateway to a burgeoning Chinese tourism industry.
- Tony Boyd
April 2021
The upside of the Tokyo Olympics tourist ban
There’s a silver lining for local organisers as the good and the great who would have gone to the Olympic Games stay at home.
- Michael Bleby
March 2021
Rex chooses Gold Coast over Brisbane in leisure play
The leisure market is mooted as the next major battleground for Regional Express (Rex), which has dumped plans to offer flights to Brisbane in time for Easter.
- Lucas Baird
December 2020
The books, films and shows that moved our top CEOs
With 2020 seeing many top leaders confided to barracks, they had time to digest some thought provoking books, films and documentaries.
- James Thomson and Tony Boyd
October 2020
Aviation will bounce back once borders come down: Scurrah
Virgin Australia Group chief executive Paul Scurrah says pent-up demand will help the aviation sector recover once state borders are open.
- Mark Ludlow
August 2020
- Opinion
- The AFR View
Everybody pays the price for border populism
States cannot attempt to keep a clean sheet on infections at home while they undermine the collective economy.
- The AFR View
Aviation can't wait for virus vaccine, says Sydney Airport
Sydney Airport CEO Geoff Culbert says states need to plan how to reopen borders without relying on a vaccine for COVID-19.
- Jenny Wiggins