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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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Two Regional Express (REX) Airlines Fokker turboprop planes on the tarmac at the Cairns Airport. PICTURE: BRENDAN RADKE

Rex needs FIRB nod for $150m injection

Rex will seek FIRB approval for a $150m deal with Asian investment firm PAG to fund new city jet operations.

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21/04/2020 :The whole Virgin flight crew from VA610 walk together through a near deserted terminal due to Covid-19, after they landed from Mackay, Brisbane airport. L-R S Kelsey Shobrook, Thalia Parsons , 1st Officer Benjamin Foote , Samantha Gopalia, Pilot John Giles, Kate Richards,and Natalie Hawkins . Lyndon Mechielsen/The Australia

Virgin workers ‘face loss of pay and conditions’

Virgin Australia under Bain Capital is shaping up to be a very different workplace for employees and unions are not happy.

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Business travel concept - Asian young business man with luggage waiting for travel in airport near flight timetable.

Frequent flyers hoard and hope

Almost 80 per cent of Qantas’s 13 million frequent flyers are stockpiling their points for when borders finally reopen.

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04/09/2020: Simon Llewellyn, CEO of Adagold Aviation, with one of their aircraft at Brisbane International airport. Adagold has clocked up an extraordinary milestone during COVID - its 500th flight to the Middle East for the Australian Defence Force. . Pic Lyndon Mechielsen

Jet maintenance flying high in pandemic

COVID may have crippled most airlines but other segments of the aviation industry have found a silver lining in the pandemic.

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Nation

Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk address media at Oyster Creek Dr, Burleigh Heads, 20th of September 2020. (News Corp/Attila Csaszar)

Our health response opens highway to the future: Palaszczuk

With COVID under control in Queensland, Premier Annastacia Palaszczuk says the state is getting on with life and business.

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Marvel Wijaya, 19, a university student from Indonesia at Canberra Airport awaiting a flight to Sydney. Marvel is travelling back to his hometown of Jakarta Indonesia. Canberra Airport CEO Stephen Bryon is making a desperate pitch to the Australian Prime Minster to develop a health-based plan to allow domestic air travel to increase to 25 per cent of capacity from 1 October 2020. At the moment, Canberra Airport is seeing fewer than 100 people a day and closing on Saturdays. Picture by Sean Davey.

Good start but not enough, say airlines

The airline industry has welcomed Scott Morrison’s announcement of an increase in arrival caps, but says he can’t stop there.

Robyn Ironside and Olivia Caisley

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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

Covid’s corporate wake up call: cut from the top

Qantas chief Alan Joyce takes major pay cut as Treasurer, investors call on nation’s biggest companies to show a social conscience.

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Victoria QuarantineVirgin flight VA863 pictured arriving at 17:55 Sydney International Airport on Friday, 7 August 2020.( Image / Monique Harmer)

Border bans ‘un-Australian’: airport boss

Sydney Airport’s CEO takes aim at state premiers, saying ‘self interest has swallowed national interest’.

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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - NewsWire Photos September 17, 2020: Prime Minister Scott Morrison attends a walk through at BlueScope Steel in Port Kembla.Picture: NCA NewsWire / Simon Bullard.

We won’t fly solo on hotels, PM told

WA and Queensland are demanding federal support to supervise an extra 2000 Australians in hotel quarantine.

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ESCAPE: Cover Story, Dec 17 - Qantas Airbus 380, Sydney Harbor, Australia. Picture: Supplied/Qantas

Qantas mystery tour over closed borders

Qantas has promised to look at more ‘scenic’ flights after a non-stop seven-hour flight from Sydney to Sydney sold out in ten minutes.

Robyn Ironside

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