This story from the Australian Aviation archives is an August 2017 feature about Virgin Australia starting Hong Kong flights in July 2017.
Australia's competition watchdog has given Virgin Australia the go-ahead to establish a deeper partnership with Virgin Atlantic.
While demand for air travel rose in May, there are signs the aviation industry faces difficult times ahead, figures from IATA show.
Virgin Australia says Qantas has provided no new evidence to justify a re-assessment of its proposed codeshare with Cathay Pacific on Australia-Hong Kong routes.
Emirates is doing its own take in the airline distance stakes by breaking its own record for the world's shortest flight on the Airbus A380.
Fiji Airways is ending nonstop flights between Adelaide and Nadi just over two years starting flights to the South Australian capital.