Category: Airlines

Virgin Australia has commenced its cargo operations with dedicated freighter aircraft ferrying parcels, food, documents and machinery for its major customer TNT and other clients. The airline’s cargo business was launched in July 2015, when its eight-year contract with Toll ended and was not renewed. As a result, the selling and managing of the belly

Qantas is changing the way it charges passengers for paying for flights with a credit card. Instead of a flat fee of $7 per passenger per booking for domestic and trans-Tasman flights and $30 for international flights when paying with a credit card for tickets booked in Australia, the airline will move to a percentage

Air freight volumes went backwards in May as economic jitters and political uncertainty stymied efforts to boost global trade and excess capacity pressured yields, new figures show. The International Air Transport Association (IATA) said freight tonne kilometres (FTK) fell 0.9 per cent in May, compared with the prior corresponding period. This content is available exclusively

Efforts to locate missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 have been hampered by poor weather in the Indian Ocean, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says. In its weekly operational update, the ATSB said it had less than 10,000 square kilometres of the agreed 120,000 square kilometre area left to search. This content is available exclusively