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Tourism Australia has inked fresh marketing partnerships with Virgin Australia and Etihad Airways worth a combined $80 million over the next five years. Virgin will contribute $25 million towards promoting Australia in key overseas markets such as the United States, with the peak tourism body tipping in a further $25 million. The deal with Virgin, which
Virgin Australia will manage the cargo space in its fleet of regional, domestic and short-haul international aircraft from July 1 as it seeks to improve the performance of its freight unit. The move to bring cargo back in-house comes as Virgin’s contact with Toll for the belly space of its passenger fleet is due to
Australia’s competition regulator has given the green light for Virgin Australia and Delta Air Lines to maintain their joint-venture partnership on trans-Pacific routes for the next five years. In a draft decision, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission says it has granted interim authorisation for the two carriers to continue their alliance, arguing it would
Qantas has ended Virgin Australia’s run as the nation’s most punctual airline. Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) showed 87.9 per cent of all Qantas domestic flights departed on time in April, while 86 per cent of its services arrived at the gate on time. This content is available exclusively
Ticket prices for domestic travel have risen sharply in May both at the pointy end of the aircraft and in the main cabin, figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show. The most pronounced jump was in the index measuring business class fares, which rose to 91.2 index points in May, compared
Virgin Australia says conditions in its key domestic market remain subdued up after posting a $28.3 million statutory net loss for the three months to March 31 2015. The statutory result was an improvement of $74.8 million from the prior corresponding quarter of 2013/14, Virgin said in a statement on Friday. This content is available
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