Category: Airlines

Virgin Blue has commenced an upgrade of its Brisbane Airport domestic terminal. The refurbishment, which commenced on November 25, will see more modern amenities including parents rooms added, and improved lighting, general finishes and other improvements added over the next five months. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member

A Jetstar A330 first officer has been sacked by the airline for “multiple breaches” of its code of conduct after he wrote an article for The Age newspaper criticising Jetstar’s plans to establish a Singapore base using Australian registered aircraft. In the article, published in mid November, Joseph Eakins, who is also a union representative

Virgin Blue has announced it will double its planned Airbus A330-200 fleet to four aircraft in early 2012, when two further aircraft will join the initial two due to enter service next May. All four aircraft will operate on transcontinental services to and from Perth. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

Qantas will resume limited Airbus A380 operations to Singapore and London from November 27 after what it calls an “intensive” inspection program for the aircraft’s Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines. “Together with the engine and aircraft manufacturers and the Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), Qantas is now satisfied that it can begin reintroducing A380s to its