Battle of the nimble

Virgin Blue has changed, will Jetstar too?

There are very few things that are constant in aviation – as the aviation landscape in Australia since it was deregulated in 1990 shows.

Airlines have come and gone with tragic regularity. Under the direction of Sir Peter Abeles, Ansett successfully became the world’s best domestic airline in an era when the rest of the world was embracing deregulation and it failed with costs twice those of upstart Virgin Blue.