Category: Airlines

Air New Zealand has released its May operational statistics, showing that the carrier experienced a 3.9 per cent increase in passengers for the month, although yields were lower than the same time last year. The increase in passengers came from increases on domestic and long haul services to North America and the UK, which increased

Virgin Blue CEO John Borghetti is reportedly set to present a new business plan for the airline to its board this week, which will include plans to introduce business class and possibly widebody aircraft on short haul services and the adoption of a new name as the airline group plans to increase its share of

Skywest has released its May operating figures, showing that it had a 7.21 per cent increase in passengers on its RPT services for the month. The increase in passenger numbers helped to push up revenue passenger kilometres by 9.53 per cent, while capacity increased by 1.13 per cent. Load factor increased by four percentage points

Tiger Airways recommenced services to Darwin on June 18, with the carrier starting daily services from Melbourne for the peak tourist season. “The return of Darwin to our network is something we have been working on closely with Darwin Airport and Tourism NT,” said Tiger’s managing director Crawford Rix. “With six weekly flights commencing from