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Australia’s second largest airline group cancelled just 0.8 per cent of flights in December 2025 according to new BITRE data, compared to 2.4 per cent of Qantas red-tail services and 1.9 per cent of Jetstar flights. In total, 1.9 per cent of all flights were cancelled for the month.
Captain Luke Fogarty, former head of E190 commercial, operations and performance at Qantas, copied “several thousand megabytes” of commercial information, including for E190s, 737s, and 787s, and has reached a settlement with Qantas over the matter, The Australian reports.
The low-cost carrier will replace A320-200s with A321neo LRs between Brisbane and Canberra from April to October this year, each of which offers up to 52 additional seats per flight. It will be the first time Jetstar has operated the new aircraft into Canberra.
The airline, which began operating between Cairns and Hamilton Island in November – reviving a former QantasLink route – now says on its website that the twice-weekly flights are being replaced by “personalised services”.
Starting on 3 March, the new A220s will begin to replace the smaller Embraer E190s on Adelaide-Brisbane services, bringing in-flight wi-fi, updated cabins, and around 100,000 additional seats per year to the route.
The three mid-life E190s, part of an order of 14 to replace Network’s ageing Fokker 100 fleet, will arrive from the end of this year, while the 28 A320s and A319s will be fitted with on-board Wi-Fi; the A320s will also get new seats with USB-A and C charging ports and device holders.
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