Carly Povey, Bonza’s chief commercial officer, said more than two-thirds of users responding to a question on the airline's new app said they wanted local over global flavours.
Qantas said the route cause of the problem stemmed from a combination of flying returning following COVID and customers confused as to how to spend their accrued flight credits.
Shane Tobin, a Qantas pilot and co-founder of UPRT Australia, a company that teaches pilots to prevent and recover from a loss of control in flight, said the current “lack of experience” in the industry calls for more of this training, especially middle level carriers.
The Flying Kangaroo paid $60 million in 2019 but its stock is now worth more than $90 after the smaller airline became one of the industry’s pandemic success stories.
Virgin Australia has unveiled its newest Business Flyer program, which offers a competitive alternative to Qantas, again upping the ante in the post-pandemic domestic aviation battle.
Delta Air Lines will increase frequency on its nonstop flights connecting Sydney and Los Angeles from mid-December to ten return flights per week.