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The airline announced the deal to use the 737 NG simulator in August last year and said on Friday that having access to the facility would increase its domestic training capacity by 25 per cent.
In a draft determination, the competition watchdog said it would keep a condition meaning the airlines must report their activity between Sydney and Christchurch.
Australian Aviation’s Victor Pody was in the Victorian capital to capture the moment the super jumbo, VH-OQL, landed at 7:14am on 17 June.
While BITRE data showed it still had the highest cancellation rate and lowest on-time performance (OTP) among major airlines in May, the low-cost carrier’s cancellation rate almost halved to 4.2 per cent and OTP increased by five percentage points to 62.4 per cent.
The airline will fly between Brisbane and Uluru on Tuesday, Thursday and Sunday using Airbus A320 aircraft. The first flight, JQ667 on board the A320-200 VH-XNN, touched down at Ayers Rock Airport just before 11am on Thursday.
The Flying Kangaroo had announced its intention to take delivery of the extra narrowbodies in February but rubber-stamped the decision with Airbus at the Paris Air Show.
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