Category: Airlines

Two Qantas executives who had been prevented from leaving Vietnam have now arrived back in Sydney after the Vietnamese government terminated its investigation into fuel hedging losses at Jetstar Pacific. Tristan Freeman and Daniella Marsilli, who were seconded to the Vietnamese carrier as its chief financial officer and chief operating officer respectively, had been prevented

Virgin Blue CEO John Borghetti has issued a memo to Virgin Blue staff outlining his new executive team, as well as plans to integrate the airline group’s long haul and short haul operations more closely. Under the planned changes, V Australia’s operations will become integrated with those of Virgin Blue, reversing the current structure which

Qantas says that premium traffic is starting to return as its May operating statistics showed that the overall airline group recorded a 5.6 per cent increase in passenger numbers compared to the same time last year. Qantas’s domestic services fared well during the month, with passenger numbers up 4.7 per cent, although an 8.7 per

A new report from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) shows that international passenger traffic growth in April slowed compared to previous months, but remained robust. For the month, passenger traffic increased by 4.2 per cent to 2.059 million passengers, making it the first month since September 2009 to record growth under