An Italian national is being held in custody by police after he stole some Virgin Airlines overalls and went on a joyride around the tarmac of Melbourne Airport in a motorised vehicle. The incident took place on 24 July and 31-year-old Croce Scarpello is now awaiting a psychologist’s report.
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Qantas boss, Alan Joyce has ruled out any imminent tie-ups between the Australian flag carrier and a major Asian airline. He said that currently, regulations in Asia, as well as the number of state-run companies, made a viable merger unlikely.
Talking about the recent mergers in Europe and the US, such ...
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A tribunal has heard claims that pilots working for Jetconnect, a New Zealand-based subsidiary of Qantas Airways, are being paid less than their fellow pilots in Australia. The ACTU has stepped in to a hearing in Sydney to put the pilots’ case forward and request that they are paid the ...
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The creator of the flight data recorder, otherwise known as the ‘black box’, has died aged 85. Dr David Warren was inspired to come up with a data recorder capable of surviving a plane crash as he was investigating the crash of a de Havilland Comet en route to Australia ...
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An American woman suing Qantas because a three-year-old boy screamed at her on one of their aircraft has settled with the flag carrier for an undisclosed sum. Jean Barnard, a 67-year-old international business consultant, was visiting Australia in January last year when the incident occurred. Planning to travel up to ...
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A mans body has been recovered from a Billabong in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory just south of Darwin, Australia. The 27-year-old from Northern Ireland apparently drowned in the Malabanjbanjdju Billabong after deciding to go for a swim. The man was with a group of around 20 people ...
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A high security committal hearing is underway in the west Sydney suburb of Parramatta. 10 Comanchero gang members are standing trial charged with the murder of the brother of a high profile Hells Angels member at Sydney Airport last year. Three Hells Angels members are also being tried for their ...
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A Woolworths baker has been fined $600 by a magistrate’s court for willfully damaging machinery just days before Christmas. Brandon Jason Gordon pleaded guilty to damaging a mechanical mixer and a labeling machine in the Biloela Woolworths where he had worked for three years. The 18-year-old said that he had ...
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The boss of a leading car hire firm joined more than 680 other company chief executives from across the nation to bed down in the open for a night to raise awareness and money for Australia’s homeless people. Bryn McGoldrick, CEO of Thrifty Car Rental, said that he had decided ...
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Singer Kelly Rowland has slammed Qantas flight attendants for allegedly delivering a poor service to her and her entourage as she flew on a domestic flight from Melbourne to Sydney. The former member of Destiny’s Child was in Sydney to attend the Supafest concert at the Acer Arena. Her attack on the ...
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