Category: Airlines

Not one of the world’s major hub airports managed a better than 90 per cent on-time performance in calendar 2014, figures from flight data and aviation consultancy OAG show. The best-performing airport with more than 20 million seats per year was Munich, where 89 per cent of all flights departed or arrived within 15 minutes

Ending the domestic capacity war appears to have given local carriers the ability to increase airfares, particularly at the budget end of the market, latest figures show. Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) figures indicate ticket prices for domestic flights across all categories – from the best discount economy fares to business class –

Regional Express (Rex) has postponed plans to begin services to Cape York communities in Far North Queensland previously served by Skytrans. The airline says it decided to drop proposed flights from Cairns to Aurukun, Edward River, Kowanyama and Bamaga that were to begin in mid-March after consulting with local communities in the area. This content is

Both the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder of crashed Indonesia AirAsia flight QZ8501 have been recovered from the bottom of the Java Sea and sent to investigators in Jakarta for analysis. Search and rescue divers from Indonesia’s National Search and Rescue Agency (BASARNAS) located the cockpit voice recorder on Tuesday, about 20 metres