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Australian Aviation understands that VH-ZNC (pictured), which saw a tyre tread separation as it took off for Perth on 24 August, damaging the underside of the right-hand wing, is awaiting the arrival of parts before it can resume operations.
Virgin cabin crew member Dylan Macnish’s employment had been terminated by the airline giant, but reinstated by the Fair Work Commission.
The twice-weekly Jetstar 787-8 service will end on 30 April, to be supplanted in May by Qantas A330s, which will operate three times per week. Qantas says it will operate 40,000 seats on Melbourne-Honolulu per year, replacing 335 Jetstar seats per flight.
The new plane, to be registered VH-8QB (similar aircraft pictured), will be based in Adelaide to help grow the airline’s operations in South Australia, and has been leased from international aircraft lessor Avmax.
The inaugural flight, JQ842, touched down at Whitsunday Coast Airport at 6:13pm on Sunday, 1 September, aboard the A320-200 VH-YXS. Services will operate three days per week, with Jetstar celebrating what it says is the first ever direct connection between Adelaide and Proserpine.
The low-cost carrier is basing up to four planes and 60 pilots in the west, as announced in November, having already commenced services last month to Singapore and Phuket.
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