Australian Aviation Podcast Network
The official podcast network of Australian Aviation – where we unpack all the latest insights and developments plus the big issues impacting Australia’s aviation sector.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 39 minutes
- Episodes
- 353
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2025
Rex wrecks – what’s next?
In a matter of months, a second Australian airline has gone into voluntary administration: this time it’s Rex, whose ambitions of challenging Qantas and Virgin on capital city flights with 737-800s h…
Chaos strikes crowds as CrowdStrike strikes out
In one of the most dramatic tech outages in history, a botched update by cyber security company CrowdStrike last Friday crippled computers around the world – and Australia’s aviation sector did not e…
Is Australia’s domestic airline market full?
With the ashes yet cooling on Bonza’s funeral pyre, Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson made an eyebrow-raising suggestion at the Flying Kangaroo’s Perth–Paris launch last week: that Australia can’t sustain mo…
Can aviation embrace sustainability, with UNSW
Australian Aviation is gearing up to host our third annual awards next month in association with UNSW and its School of Aviation.
The university recently hosted a panel examining sustainability in th…
Farewell Bonza, we hardly knew ye
In the end, it was all but inevitable – after losing its planes, cancelling its flights, sacking its staff and failing to find a buyer, Bonza is no more, with creditors making the decision to wind up…
Do low-cost airlines need a government leg-up?
As Bonza’s administrator looks set to finally close the curtain on the stricken airline, a new YouGov survey has revealed 50 per cent of Australians believe the government should step in and back low…
And the winner of the ‘Battle for Bali’ is…
Despite Virgin attracting some major allies in its fight for more capacity to Bali, ultimately Jetstar looks to have prevailed, with the IASC awarding Qantas Group the coveted seats.
So what tipped t…
End of the runway for Bonza’s staff
It wasn’t the news more than 300 Bonza employees wanted to hear – but after a buyer for the grounded carrier failed to materialise, administrator Hall Chadwick has sacked all staff and cancelled ever…
The final flight of the ‘airship of dreams’
It was meant to be the crowning achievement of the budding British airship industry: R101, a majestic “ocean liner of the skies” that would ferry passengers all across the world in style and comfort.
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A fresh reprieve for Bonza
Will Bonza fly again? That’s the question that has been on the mind of the aviation sector ever since the low-cost carrier went into voluntary administration at the end of April, with its planes seiz…
Virgin dethrones Qantas as most reliable Aussie airline
For 19 months, Qantas reigned as Australia’s most reliable airline group – but no more, with Virgin Australia last month knocking the Flying Kangaroo off its perch in a clean sweep of on-time arrival…
How this Qantas A330 pilot is flying high with his brokerage
Richard (Rick) Garner is a non-executive director on the board of Qantas Superannuation and an A330 pilot. He’s also, incredibly, an award-winning mortgage broker who worked in financial services an…
What next after Bonzageddon?
A week after Bonza’s fleet was abruptly seized in a move that sent shockwaves through the Australian aviation sector, the airline is still yet to get back in the air as its administrator fights to sa…
Is it all over for Bonza?
It was as sudden as it was brutal: grounded planes, stranded passengers, and chaos across the east coast as Bonza suspended its services without warning.
With reports that its entire fleet had been r…
Bonza sets the record straight
Bonza has come out swinging after reports in The Australian Financial Review that consultant KordaMentha had been called in to advise the airline.
In one of the more blunt denials we’ve seen, the low…
Flying Kangaroo plays it safe on Perth–London route
With tensions flaring between Israel and Iran, Qantas has paused its non-stop Perth–London services, adding a new stop in Singapore on the northbound journey. Given the difficulties of avoiding Iran…
Qantas offers frequent flyers a $120m olive branch
Qantas has unveiled a massive shake-up to its frequent flyer program, adding 20 million new seats per year. The “Classic Plus” seats will cost more than the existing 5 million annual “Classic Rewards…
Holiday headaches on the horizon as strikes loom
No sooner have the Network Aviation strikes in WA ended than Airservices Australia becomes the next big name in the sector to face industrial action, as aviation rescue firefighters plan a work stopp…
Boeing, going, gone
Heads are continuing to roll at Boeing, with the CEO and chairman both announcing their retirement by the end of the year.
It’s the latest fallout in the ongoing turmoil stemming from the mid-air blo…
RAAF rolls out pulse-pounding new recruitment ad
In a bid to boost Air Force recruitment, Defence has launched a cinematic new advertising campaign spruiking all the different roles available in the RAAF.
Featuring footage of (and shot in) actual R…