Qantas has reported a first-half underlying pre-tax profit of $1.43 billion - turning around last year's loss - as strong demand helped offset high fuel costs.
Qantas will spend $100 million to upgrade its lounges at airports worldwide, including doubling the seats of one of its regional Western Australian facilities.
Port Hedland’s Lumsden Point will be one of the Pilbara-based ports slated for an upgrade as part of a $565 million funding boost to expand export and import capacity.
ANALYSIS: Much of the Australian media has been awash with Qantas turnback stories over the past month but the statistics from the Australian Transport Safety Bureau tell a different story.
The automotive sector said it was very disappointed to discover the state government was considering a plan to shift motor vehicle imports from Fremantle to Bunbury.
CTI Logistics has announced its second big profit upgrade in the space of two months as it benefits from high demand for its freight and warehousing services.
Direct flights between Tokyo and Perth will resume later this year after a three-year hiatus, with a potential to reinstate the route for daily service.
Perron Group's application to build a new Toyota WA headquarters has been approved after a swift 10-minute meeting by a development assessment panel today.
Second-generation business Quickmail has survived and subsequently thrived through a very disruptive cycle, the arrival of the internet and the subsequent digitisation of communications and marketi
The turnaround time for ships using Fremantle harbour has more than doubled in recent years, adding to pressure for major infrastructure upgrades additional to the planned Westport project.
A $1.1 billion proposal to build Perth’s first elevated rail as part of Metronet has hit a snag, with the Town of Victoria Park council recommending it be rejected.
A contentious proposal to upgrade Charles Street in North Perth has been dropped, potentially saving about 100 properties initially planned to be cleared.
Safe Work Australia has reported a decline in workplace fatalities across the country, but highlighted road transport and farming as by far the most dangerous sectors to work in.
Commuters battling their way onto freeways from Perth CBD in peak hour may be in for some relief, with Infrastructure Australia endorsing early-stage plans to ease the infamous congestion.
Design work for the Westport project is moving ahead, although it is unclear when the $4 billion-plus development will be needed as container traffic stalls.
ASX-listed Kelsian Group has bought another Western Australian business, bolstering its presence in the state’s transport sector and BDO’s growing pipeline of buy-side deals.
The competition watchdog is seeking to maintain four independent operators in the fly-in, fly-out market, flagging plans to quash Virgin’s partnership with Alliance over fears it would erode competition.
The state government is lobbying Qantas to get on board a terminal move that would bring it closer to the $1.9 billion Airport Link, a plan the airline resisted in its stoush with Perth Airport.
State government decisions to sign two new Metronet contracts despite the projects failing economic and social benefit assessments were “extravagant and vain”, the opposition says.
