Jake Nelson

The airline will offer refunds averaging $55 to around 61,000 passengers whose bookings were “repriced in a way that does not align with its policy” in some instances between 21 April 2020 and 31 March 2025, representing about 0.1 per cent of bookings made during that period.

Flown by the Boeing 707 “V-jet” VH-EBL, the hop from Sydney to Christchurch on 10 April, 1965, was the first ever commercial flight across the Tasman with a jet aircraft.

In its final report into the disaster, which killed four people and injured six others when two EC130 helicopters collided mid-air on Main Beach minutes away from Surfers Paradise on 2 January 2023, the transport safety watchdog made 28 findings, including around the operator’s actions in the preceding months.

Starting 25 June, the low-cost carrier will operate four flights a week to Bali using its 180-seat A320-200 aircraft, adding more than 74,000 seats per year on the route.

Tuesday saw the first aircraft to use the taxiway, Jetstar A321 VH-VWX on flight JQ514 to Sydney, greeted with a water-cannon salute. The 800-metre taxiway runs parallel to the airport’s east-west (09/27) runway, and was constructed over 11 months with 43,000m3 of concrete pavement.

Starting in June, the carrier, China’s largest and one of the country’s “Big Four”, will increase its A350-900 flights from four to seven per week between Brisbane and Guangzhou, adding 48,984 inbound seats to Queensland from China per year.