In its latest Airport Monitoring Report released this week, the ACCC found that Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth Airports all returned to profit in the 2022–23 financial year, with boosts to aeronautical revenues as well as income from car parking and landside access.

With reports that its entire fleet had been repossessed in the dead of night, emergency talks about the ongoing viability of the business ended in Bonza entering voluntary administration – so what went wrong?

Jason Harfield, who has been with Airservices for 35 years, has reached the end of his contract and will leave on 8 June, with chief strategy and customer experience officer Peter Curran to serve as interim CEO while the air traffic control body undertakes a global search for his replacement.

The competition watchdog is seeking submissions on its draft determination, which would allow Virgin to sell an unlimited number of tickets under its code on Air New Zealand flights sold and originating in Australia, up to available capacity, provided that Air New Zealand sets the fares.

In a statement to NT News last week, a council spokesperson said that the airport is “required to make a financial contribution to the city in lieu of rates on land which is subleased to tenants, or land on which trading or operations are undertaken”.

Several Qantas customers have reported being able to access other customers’ account information, point score, status tier, travel destination and even boarding passes. In addition, customers could reportedly change other people’s seats, cancel their flight altogether or book an entire new flight under their name.