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Qantas maintained its position as Australia’s largest international carrier in 2014, although the gap to foreign airlines such as Emirates and Qantas’s low-cost subsidiary Jetstar is narrowing. Figures from the Bureau of Transport, Infrastructure and Regional Economics (BITRE) show Qantas carried 15.4 per cent of the 33.1 million passengers that travelled into and out of Australia
Residents of Tamworth will have a choice of airlines for flights to Sydney from May when Virgin Australia begins flights to the Northern NSW city. Australia’s second largest carrier plans to operate between Sydney and Tamworth, the home of the nation’s largest country music festival, six times a week from May 25 using 68-seat ATR72-600 aircraft.
Virgin Australia will introduce its fleet of Airbus A330-200s on its loss-making international network from April when it sends the widebodied aircraft to Fiji. The A330s will operate between Sydney to Nadi on a seasonal basis with the first flight starting on Saturday April 4, the airline said in a statement on Monday. It was
Virgin Australia is to start flying its first business class seats across the Tasman on February 28, with the old formerly red Eurobusiness-style premium economy seats from the age of Virgin Blue and Pacific Blue to be replaced by the 2011-era Virgin Australia recliner seats. Flights between Auckland and Sydney will be the first to see
Virgin Australia has forecast an improved second half as it expects to gain a $50 million benefit from lower fuel prices over the remainder of 2014/15 and works to turnaround a loss-making international division. The company on Thursday confirmed a statutory loss of $47.8 million for the six months to December 31 2014, an improvement
Virgin Australia’s first half financial figures suggest that while Tigerair Australia is still a drag on the airline group’s results, the low-cost carrier may have taken the first steps on the path towards putting years of losses, a safety-related grounding and poor reputation for customer service behind it. John Borghetti says the transformation of Tigerair from
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