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Speaking at the meeting on Friday, CEO Dave Emerson said the airline had seen a successful 2025 financial year, with 20.7 million customers flown and a statutory net profit after tax of $479 million, and that trading for 2026 to date is in line with its expectations.
Jetstar will ramp up its recently-launched Newcastle–Bali service to four per week from 29 March, adding 24,000 seats per year, and will introduce another leg connecting through to Singapore. It comes a week after the low-cost carrier announced a similar route from the Sunshine Coast.
Qantas says that the centre will amplify the customer experience through improving the functionality of the Qantas app, enhancing check-in services, and strengthening baggage tracking. An AI tool that will “help when travel doesn’t go to plan” will also be developed.
A Malaysia Airlines Airbus A330-300, 9M-MTL, passed just seven metres over the top of work vehicles at the end of Melbourne’s runway 34 on the night of 7 September 2023, followed by a Bamboo Airways 787-9, VN-A819, passing less than five metres overhead 11 days later.
Flight CX173 from Hong Kong touched down in Adelaide shortly before 10:20am on Wednesday aboard the A350-900 B-LRJ, returning as CX174 two hours later. The non-stop flights will operate three times per week until 27 March 2026.
The early-morning flight QF1972 to Canberra, on board wet-leased Alliance E190 VH-UZI, made a PAN call after the pilots detected smoke in the flight deck, and turned back to Adelaide. The flight, which had several Liberal politicians on board, landed safely at around 6:20am.
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