Australian Aviation
High Court asked to hear Qatar strip-search case
Qatar Airways has turned to the High Court to overturn a finding it was liable for invasive searches at Doha five years...
26 August 2025
By Jake Nelson
Consumer protections incoming for aviation industry
The federal government will introduce an Aviation Industry Ombudsman Scheme and a Charter of Customer Rights to better...
27 August 2024
By Jake Nelson
Aviation company accuses lawyers, accountants of negligence
A regional aviation repair station has taken its former lawyers and accountants to court over allegations they were...
10 July 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Dreyfus: ‘We will not abandon’ push for MH17 justice
The federal Attorney-General has reiterated Australia’s commitment to justice for MH17 as the 10th anniversary of its...
05 July 2024
By Jake Nelson
Singapore Airlines passengers may be compensated for turbulence, lawyer says
A Brisbane personal injury firm is investigating whether passengers who experienced the severe and fatal turbulence on...
30 May 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Court extends Bonza administration to late July
Bonza’s administrators will have until the end of July to save the low-cost carrier after successfully arguing for an...
29 May 2024
By Jake Nelson
Bonza administrators ask court for extension
Bonza’s administrators are seeking a two-month extension to their appointment as they continue to search for a buyer...
27 May 2024
By Naomi Neilson
‘Unfair’: Qantas allowed new argument in illegal sacking case
Just as the 1,700 illegally sacked Qantas workers were approaching compensation, the major airline proposed an entirely...
21 May 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Administrators uncertain of Bonza’s liability for cancelled flights
Ahead of a meeting that will bring thousands of disgruntled Bonza customers together, administrators told a court they...
08 May 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Women can’t sue Qatar Airways for 2020 strip searches, judge rules
Five Australian women subjected to invasive searches at Doha Airport in 2020 are not able to sue Qatar Airways for...
15 April 2024
By Jake Nelson
Qantas could pay ‘millions of dollars’ in compensation
A court was told three of the 1,700 workers illegally sacked by Qantas have suffered financially and emotionally in the...
19 March 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Court win but no costs for Virgin, Jetstar, Qantas
Major airlines Virgin, Jetstar and Qantas will not receive costs despite a court’s earlier decision to throw out a...
14 March 2024
By Naomi Neilson
Passengers need 'bill of rights' for air travel, lawyers say
The Australian Lawyers Alliance has called for a “passenger bill of rights” to be included in the upcoming Aviation...
30 November 2023
By Jake Nelson
Qantas ‘completely rejects’ COVID credit class action claims
The national airline has hit back against claims in a class action, filed by Echo Law, that it unlawfully benefited...
22 August 2023
By Jake Nelson
Qantas had right to sack worker on leave who hadn’t gotten COVID-19 jab
The Fair Work Commission has ruled that national airline Qantas was able to sack a Jetstar manager who put off having a...
21 April 2023
By Jake Nelson
Lawyers call for mandated flight delay compensation
The federal government should force airlines to compensate passengers for flight delays, says a national legal advocacy...
21 March 2023
By Jake Nelson
Qantas succeeds in bid to take outsourcing appeal to High Court
The national airline has won the right to a final appeal against the Federal Court’s ruling that it was wrong to...
23 November 2022
By Adam Thorn
‘David and Goliath battle’: Passengers sue Qatari airline and authority over unlawful bodily searches
Five women, who were passengers on an October 2020 Qatar Airways flight, and some of whom were subjected to invasive,...
21 October 2022
By Adam Thorn and Jerome Doraisamy
Dreyfus hails MH17 case against Russia
Federal Attorney-General Mark Dreyfus has called Australia’s decision to take legal action against Russia over MH17 a...
21 October 2022
By Adam Thorn
$33m settlement reached for BHI class action
Hundreds of students who enrolled with collapsed flight school Soar are set to receive a five-figure payout after...
18 October 2022
By Adam Thorn