Chairs were set up on a mat underneath the awning extending from the modified van decked out with a mattress, custom made drawers, an Esky, curtains and even a pot plant ..read more

The union for aviation firefighters claims inadequate numbers of trucks and personnel have been on deck for international flights - but the Federal organising body rejects the accusation ..read more

Australia’s battle of the airlines is heating up, with national carrier Qantas launching a sale just days after Virgin announced its cut-price fares across half a million flights ..read more

With nearly 200 Boeing 737 Max jets temporarily grounded as urgent inspections are completed, fresh concerns have been raised about airline safety issues and the possible impact on Australian airlines ..read more

The Gold Coast’s light rail network will face major disruptions during one of the busiest times of year as staff threaten to walk off the job ..read more

NSW holiday-maker Claire Kosac and her husband visited the Glitter Strip to support a friend who competed in the Gold Coast Marathon. They were due to check out of their accommodation at the Q1 last Monday when a rubbish-bin fire forced hundreds of people to evacuate the building. Mrs Kosac was one of nine people taken to hospital in stable conditions, but was later given the all-clear. The NSW woman said she and her husband missed their Monday morning flight during the chaos. “So we had to change our flights and then we contacted the Q1 saying that we needed to stay (an extra night),” Mrs Kos ..read more

Gold Coast’s last direct flight to Narita, east of central Tokyo, will be on October 29. It comes after Jetstar inked a deal with Brisbane Airport to launch an extra half a million low fares seats between the river city and international destinations. The deal will see the operation of direct flights between Brisbane and Tokyo (Narita), Brisbane and Osaka and Brisbane and Seoul, South Korea. A Jetstar spokeswoman said the change was about serving all of southeast Queensland. “The Gold Coast remains an important destination in Jetstar’s network,” she said.“We will continue to operate up to 190 ..read more

Next week, the low-cost airline’s check-in process will be overhauled, with travellers expected to get to the airport earlier and board flights sooner.More airport staff, cabin crew and engineering team members are being recruited to streamline the process, which will bring Jetstar “in line with other low-cost carriers around the world”.And for their commitment to helping the airline become more punctual, passengers would be rewarded with even cheaper flight deals — some of them already as low as a quarter of the regular retail price.In March, the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Researc ..read more

The Naughty Tourists patrol is on a laser-focused mission to reign in visitors doing all the wrong things in their island paradise.There is the obvious bad behaviour: not wearing helmets while riding a motorbike, visa breaches, behaving badly while inebriated, and fighting.And the less obvious but very serious: defiling sacred space and working illegally.We joined the patrol for a behind-the-scenes look at their very busy, mostly after-hours work.At Parq – a hotspot among Russian crypto current tzars and assorted social media modelsand influencers – the team of 20 immigration officers arrived ..read more

It just sat there limp, lifeless.All 7000kg of it.Each strand found after liberation so aptly represented the thousands of lives lost at the three concentration camps outside the town of Oscwiem in Poland.Most people know the camps as Auschwitz or Birkenau.They have become symbols of terror, genocide and the holocaust all over the world.But it wasn’t just the hair. It was the piles of spectacles, the unfathomable collection of shoes and artificial limbs, and the hundreds of hairbrushes, shaving-brushes and toothbrushes.The people who arrived at the camps on the overcrowded trains from all over ..read more