Alan Joyce could face the prospect of jail time if he fails to front a Senate inquiry into the blocking of extra flights from Qatar. The former Qantas chief has been warned he will need to face the inquiry when he returns to Australia from a European vacation. Coalition senatorContinue Reading
An Italian tourist has been deported and black-listed from Bali after security footage of a sexual act in front of a house in Seminyak was circulated on social media. Bali immigration officials this week confirmed the man, identified only by the initials LS, was deported on Sunday “based on aContinue Reading
Australians would be better served if international airlines were granted greater access to the nation’s capital cities, as more competition could drop prices, the productivity commission says. Acting chair Alex Robson said while the current arrangements had served Australia well, there was room for improvement. “There would be benefits fromContinue Reading
Qantas customers were forced to wait hours on the tarmac without food and water after a series of technical issues on domestic flights. About one hundred passengers on flight QF596 were stuck in their seats for three hours after landing at Gold Coast airport on Monday night. While waiting on-boardContinue Reading
Qatar Airways’ boss will not appear on the first day of a probe tasked to investigate why the government blocked the airline’s bid to offer extra flight services into Australia. A Senate inquiry into bilateral air rights will hold its first public hearing on Tuesday, following weeks of mounting tensionContinue Reading
Shocking footage has captured a Qantas plane missing three of the four bolts that help to hold its engine together, as whistleblowers raise concerns about the airline’s standards of maintenance. The video, which was shared to X on Friday, showed that three of the bolts that hold the plane’s engineContinue Reading
Egypt has grand plans to host the 2036 Olympics — and the country is already building a whole new city in order to make their dream a reality. That’s despite them not even officially bidding for it yet, The Sun reports. Work began on the new administrative capital in 2015Continue Reading
Foreign Minister Penny Wong has hinted that the real reason why Australia blocked more flights from Qatar is linked to the invasive strip-searches of women at Qatar airport. Three years ago, multiple Australian women were stripsearched by authorities at a Qatari airport after a premature baby was found in aContinue Reading
Richard Marles has denied he is “running for cover” over the federal government’s Qatar decision as an exasperated Coalition slams the government for ending the week with “more questions than answers”. Transport Minister Catherine King made the decision on July 10 to deny Qatar Airways’ bid to almost double theirContinue Reading
An under-fire Transport Minister has conceded an incident at a Qatari airport three years ago fed into her decision to block Qatar’s bid to double its flights into Australia. Catherine King signed off on her decision on July 10, the same day she signed a letter to five women whoContinue Reading