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Fuel prices have exposed a deeper problem in NZ’s regional air network. Struggling routes may need public support if smaller communities are to stay connected.
Understanding the coopetition mechanics behind Europe’s defence dilemma is vital and key for making much-needed headway.
Data analytics, putting safety out of bounds for competition, and collaboration among industry, labor and government are key to reducing a technology’s risks.
Airline operations are hugely complex – so putting things right in a crisis is difficult and costly.
Because it can only learn from the past, AI won’t be able to warn us of new or emerging risks.
Before their demise, both Rex and Bonza had criticised the way airport slots are allocated at Sydney airport, arguing it locked them out of the premium takeoff and landing times needed to compete.
Rex Airlines appears to be in trouble, with a trading halt on its shares. Yet it has more structural resilience, financial backing and political clout than Bonza, which folded recently.
Can Boeing overcome its current challenges and regain its reputation as a winning corporation?
Unions are arcing up about cabin crew being filmed without consent during flights. Some airlines have brought in new rules aimed at curbing the practice.
Airlines and airports face increased scrutiny – and possibly legal action – over the contradictions between their sustainability claims and the reality of their high-emissions businesses.
Takeoff and landing are among the most difficult tasks commercial pilots perform.
The US has open-skies agreements with more than 100 nations, Singapore has more than 60 nations. Australia has just seven.
The chaos caused over the August bank holiday may well have been preventable.
While the pandemic undoubtedly impacted the aviation industry, its problems were already present prior to COVID-19. The pandemic simply intensified these issues.
The Biden administration fears that further consolidation in the aviation industry will lead to worse outcomes for consumers – but do mergers necessarily push up prices?
From 1968 to 1974, US airlines experienced 130 hijackings. But it was Cooper’s hijacking-as-extortion plot that captured the public’s imagination – and inspired a copycat crime wave.
The COVID-19 pandemic has been unlike any crisis, both in terms of depth and duration, and has damaged the aviation industry more than most sectors.















