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Robyn Ironside is The Australian’s aviation writer, and has twice been recognised by the Australasian Aviation Press Club (in 2020 and 2023) as the best aviation journalist. She has been with The Australian since 2018, and covered aviation for News Corp since 2014 after previously reporting on Queensland state politics and crime with The Courier-Mail.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NCA NewsWire Photos August, 20, 2020Photo of Quantas CEO Alan Joyce at the Qantas press conference at 10 Bourke Road Mascot.Picture: NCA NewsWire/Flavio Brancaleone

Alan Joyce lashes Victoria’s border hypocrisy

Victoria’s border closure to Sydney has become personal for Qantas boss Alan Joyce, and he is not happy.

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ESCAPE: Business class feature by Amanda Woods. June 23. iStockbusiness class Seat with champagne waiting for a Passenger

Business airfares at seven-year lows

Airfares have fallen to their lowest levels in years this month as airlines try to fill seats amid a rollercoaster of border changes.

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JOBKEEPERPolitics

13th January 2021Story Bridge Hotel owner Richard Deery does not want to see Jobkeeper extended as he believes the allowance is one of several factors that have contributed to a dire shortage of casual workers, resulting in the hotel restricting its operating hours.photo: Glenn Hunt / The Australian

Hotels issue a ‘Stop JobKeeper’ plea

Frustrated hoteliers say they’re happy to see JobKeeper go in March to give people a reason to return to work.

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Reds star Harry Wilson in the cockpit of an Alliance aircraft to mark the partnership between the rugby team and the Brisbane-based airline. Picture: Tom Mitchell/QRU

Reds flying high with new sponsor deal

The Queensland Reds are set to be the high-flyers of Super Rugby, becoming Australia’s first sporting team with their own jet.

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Qantas aircraft are seen at Sydney Airport, Thursday, 24 December 2020. Authorities are urgently investigating how a Qantas crew member contracted Covid-19 after arriving in Darwin from Paris and then flying to Sydney without being tested or quarantined. Federal health authorities are working with Qantas to understand how the man, who landed in Darwin on 17 December after working on a repatriation flight from Paris, became infected. Picture - Sam Mooy/The Australian Newspaper

Unions take Qantas ‘wage theft’ to court

Qantas says unions are wasting members’ money by taking a case over the airline’s JobKeeper payments to the High Court.

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Politics

31/12/2020 : Looking forward to a new start with a new year, a couple embrace with the high rises of the Gold Coast behind them, and kiss on the beach under a rainbow at Burleigh Heads on the Gold Coast. Lyndon Mechielsen/ The Australian

Border bans ‘more worrying than Covid’

Sudden border closures are now a bigger deterrent to travel than the fear of catching COVID-19, a survey has found.

Robyn Ironside

Aviation

09/12/2020. Virgin Australia CEO Jayne Hrdlicka, photographed at Sydney Domestic Airport, Virgin check-in. Britta Campion / The Australian

Qantas, Virgin ready to rumble

Rex’s plan to muscle in on the lucrative Melbourne-Sydney route has Virgin and Qantas in a tailspin.

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No pay for Virgin boss amid staff pitch

Virgin Australia’s CEO tells staff she won’t be paid until 2021, in the hope they will vote in favour of new work agreements.

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30/04/2020: As the COVID-19 pandemic cripples the airline business, international carriers like Singapore Airlines has selected Alice Springs Airport as an ideal location to mothball it's fleet. Asia Pacific Aircraft Storage has undertaken the taks of parking billions of dollars worth of aircraft in Australia's desert centre. PIC: Dan Gerich for The Australian

Singapore Airlines ready for vaccine takeoff

Singapore Airlines is positioning itself to answer the logistical challenge of taking a COVID-19 vaccine to the world.

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Sydney Seaplanes CEO Aaron Shaw with one of the planes that will be turning into a electric passenger carrier plane on the 10th of December. Picture: Adam Yip

All-electric airline is a world first

Australia’s first all-electric passenger flights are set to take to the skies over Sydney from 2023.

Robyn Ironside

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