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Virgin Australia’s return from administration to long-haul flying
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On April 21, 2020, the storm that had been brewing on the horizon for Virgin Australia finally hit. Saddled with billions in debt, with COVID-19 slowing revenue to a trickle and desperate attempts to garner loans from state and federal governments having failed, the airline handed the keys over to administrators at Deloitte.
You could have been forgiven at the time for writing Virgin off as yet another casualty of Australia’s brutal aviation sector – but five years on, the airline that started life as Virgin Blue before evolving into a full-service carrier is leaner, meaner, and back in the black after finding its own niche in the market.
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