Category: Airlines

Virgin Blue looks set to relaunch as Virgin Australia tomorrow, when the airline’s second Airbus A330-200 and a new Boeing  737-800 land at Sydney Airport at around 9am wearing the airline’s new colours. “On 4th May 2011, Sir Richard Branson will join Virgin Blue Group of Airlines CEO, John Borghetti, to unveil the new face

The memory module of the flight data recorder of the doomed Air France Flight 447 (AF447) has been found by search teams in the Atlantic Ocean, giving hope investigators will be able to determine what caused the 2009 crash of the Airbus A330-200. According to reports the memory module was recovered by the Ile de

Virgin Blue and Delta are expanding their codeshare agreement, covering new destinations in the US and Australia and New Zealand. The expanded arrangement will see V Australia passengers able to connect from Los Angeles on Delta to four new destinations in the United States – San Francisco, Las Vegas, Atlanta and Detroit, while Delta will

Strategic Airlines has applied for traffic rights to the USA, prompting speculation the largely leisure orientated carrier is planning flights to Hawaii. Strategic wrote to the International Air Services Commission (IASC) earlier this month, seeking “an allocation of the unlimited capacity available to designated Australian carriers to operate between Australia and the United States.” The