Finnair flight AY145 landed in Melbourne at 7:14am on Monday aboard the A350-900 OH-LWO, making Melbourne the only airport in Australia currently served by a European Union airline.

Flight NZ165 was the first to touch down at WSI, landing ahead of schedule at just before 7:30am aboard the A320neo ZK-NHC, with the return NZ166 service departing for Auckland just after 9:15am. It comes after Jetstar began domestic services on Sunday.

Speaking to Australian Aviation at WSI on Sunday, CEO Stephanie Tully said both Western Sydney and Bali are important markets to Jetstar, and that the airline would expect strong demand. It comes as the new airport has finally opened to passengers, with two Jetstar flights taking off on Sunday.

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The inaugural service, Jetstar flight JQ362, took off for the Gold Coast shortly after 11:20am on Sunday, with the return JQ363 service becoming the first inbound flight when it touched down at WSI at around 3:30pm, both operated by A320neo VH-A5E.

The NSW Supreme Court ruled in June that ASIC had failed to prove its case against John Sharp, Siddharth Khotkar, and Lincoln Pan over a market update in February 2023 saying Rex was “optimistic” about a full-year profit, though former executive director Lim Kim Hai was fined and disqualified.

Last month, 83.2 per cent of Qantas and QantasLink services departed on time and 82.5 per cent arrived on time, with 1.4 per cent cancelled, compared to 74.3 per cent on-time departures, 74.2 per cent on-time arrivals, and 1.6 per cent cancellations at Virgin Australia and VARA.

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