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The route, which was paused in April due to maintenance issues with Pratt & Whitney geared turbofan (GTF) engines used on Air New Zealand’s A320neo and A321neo aircraft, will restart on 27 October with three weekly return flights.
The Freshwater poll for The Australian Financial Review, which surveyed 1,061 voters, showed around 48 per cent agreed Qantas and Jetstar should be broken up “in order to increase competition between airlines”.
The latest BITRE data – the first since Rex axed its domestic jet operations, which consistently posted high on-time performance, at the end of July – showed QantasLink as the most reliable individual airline in on-time departures and arrivals, though Virgin saw the lowest cancellations.
The agreement sees Qantas Group recommit to servicing Gold Coast and Townsville Airports for at least the next seven years, and Mount Isa and Longreach Airports for the next 10 years. The group has a more than 20-year record of serving QAL’s airports.
Two months after Qantas and the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) both emerged from a Federal Court of Australia dispute with a loss, Justice Scott Goodman has dismissed separate applications to recoup some of their legal costs.
The Flying Kangaroo, which currently operates two daily Sydney–Haneda services, is looking to fly once each per day from Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane from 30 March next year, while maintaining connections to Tokyo’s other major international airport at Narita.
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