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Virgin Australia claimed on-time honours for a second straight month in November, while Rex retained its position as the most punctual regional carrier. Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics showed 89 per cent of Virgin’s domestic flights departed within 15 minutes of schedule in November, ahead of Qantas at 86.7 per
QantasLink will bring airline competition to the Adelaide-Whyalla route from April 2015. The regional carrier will fly 13 times a week between the South Australian capital and Whyalla, a coastal city located north west of Adelaide, using 50-seat Q300 aircraft. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the
Mystery surrounds the eventual retirement home of Qantas Boeing 747-400 VH-OJA, with the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) describing social media reports that it will take the aircraft as “rumour mongering”. HARS president Bob De La Hunty says the “rumours” on social media are “all over the place”. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.
Qantas says yields improved across both its domestic and international operations for a third straight month in November as it maintained capacity discipline at home and benefitted from more benign capacity growth from foreign carriers. On the domestic front, Qantas said on Tuesday yields – an industry term measuring average airfares per passenger – improved
Qantas has made sweeping changes to its senior executive ranks with the heads of its Domestic and International operations heading for the departure gate as part of a major restructure. Lyell Strambi, who runs Qantas Domestic, and the head of Qantas International Simon Hickey will leave the company once the new structure is in place
Qantas is looking to further improve its aircraft utilisation rates, which it says are still below those of major competitors. As part of its ‘transformation’ program to cut costs and increase efficiency Qantas has introduced a number of measures to improve aircraft availability, which has allowed it to introduce a number of new routes (such as Brisbane-Tokyo announced on Tuesday) and even look to
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