iscoverA record 55 million passengers travelled on Australian domestic flights last year as growth on regional routes spiked in response to the mining boom. Sydney remained Australia’s busiest domestic airport with 24.2 million passenger movements, followed by Melbourne with 21.4 million and Brisbane with 16.4 million, according to figures released by the Bureau of Infrastructure,
Qantas is reportedly trying to convince Singapore Airlines to break its alliance with Virgin Australia and join the Qantas-Emirates tie up formed last week. The Australian Financial Review reported today that Qantas executives have made their case to senior officials at Temasek, the Singapore government investment vehicle that owns 56 per cent of Singapore Airlines.
Virgin Australia is seeking to pry away half of Qantas’s weekly allocation of seats to Italy. In an application to the International Air Services Commission, which distributes capacity to Australian airlines under international air treaties, Virgin said it was seeking 300 seats per week to support the introduction of code sharing services on existing flights
QantasLink will launch direct flights between Sydney and Gladstone next year as it continues to expand its Bombardier Dash 8 Q400 turboprop network. The Sydney-Gladstone services are scheduled to commence on March 4 2013 and will operate eight times per week, including twice daily on Mondays, Thursdays and Fridays. The 2-hour 35-minute route will be
Qantas has told the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) that its proposed ten-year alliance with Emirates is a strategic imperative if it is to reverse the “terminal decline” of its international operations. Painting a dire picture of the state of its international business as it seeks approval for the tie-up, Qantas said it would
Qantas’ sweeping alliance with Emirates will help return the Flying Kangaroo’s international operations to profit by 2015, CEO Alan Joyce has predicted. “This is a big step in the right direction for Qantas International,” Mr Joyce told the ABC’s Inside Business this weekend. “We see a path through to this business breaking even by financial
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