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The airline will fly three times per week from Perth to Manila starting 27 November, and from Brisbane to Cebu starting 3 December, using its A321neo LR fleet. Between them, the new routes will add more than 108,000 seats per year between Australia and the Philippines.
The Flying Kangaroo and its low-cost arm have been assigned 52 per cent of take-off and landing slots in Sydney between late October 2025 and the end of March 2026, with Virgin Australia taking 19 per cent of the total allocation, according to data released by slot manager ACL Asia Pacific (ACL).
In the preliminary report into the 12 June crash, which killed 241 people on board and 19 on the ground, injuring 67 more, investigators from India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) found that the plane’s engines both had their fuel cut off moments into the flight.
A new report by Airservices Australia also reveals domestic flights declined slightly by 1 per cent during the same period, even as passenger numbers increased by 2 per cent.
Separately, the airline has also revealed that 5.7 million passengers were targeted in total, and broken down the number of those whose names, emails, phone numbers, and other data fields were compromised.
The 26-year-old aircraft, MSN 28595, was last operated by Georgian Airlines as a freighter after its conversion in 2022, having previously flown for carriers including Malaysia Airlines and Airitaly. It joins ASLA’s first B737-800BCF, VH-CYK, which was delivered in May 2024.
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