Macquarie AirFinance provides leasing and financing solutions, with a portfolio of 189 aircraft leased to 77 airlines across 47 countries. Customers have included Qantas and Virgin.
Travellers were reportedly given a 90-minute warning of the situation before NZ27 departed Chicago bound for Auckland.
Dallas Hay will remain with the company as an advisor to the board but will be replaced in his current role by Altara Group’s Alistair Dorward.
The route is the Vietnamese budget airline’s first from the Victorian capital and will take capacity to the Southeast Asian country to 150 per cent of pre-COVID levels.
It comes after Virgin claimed to have hit real profitability for the first time since its damaging ‘capacity wars’ battle with Qantas and following the national carrier itself targeting an underlying profit before tax of up to $1.45 billion for the first half of the current financial year.
The business has been slowly returning its 12 double-deckers to active service, though plans to scrap two permanently.