Category: Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia is to set up a cabin crew base in Adelaide, in what the airline said is recognition of the city’s growing importance to domestic operations. Creating up to 80 new jobs, Virgin Australia chief customer officer Mark Hassell said: “We have more than 40 flights arriving and departing each day at Adelaide Airport. Having

Virgin Australia has formally launched the rollout of wireless streaming of entertainment content to passengers’ portable devices as its inflight entertainment system for domestic and short-haul international flights. The airline began trialling the technology in August 2012 and has already fitted 37 aircraft with the system. It expects rollout across its 737-800 and E190 fleets

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has conditionally extended the trans-Tasman alliance between Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia for a further five years. Both airlines have welcomed the decision, which gives both carriers the ability to codeshare and provide reciprocal frequent flyer benefits to customers through until October 31 2018. This content is

Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti says his airline is in “no rush” to decide on the airline’s future fleet plans, which includes an evaluation of the Boeing 787 and Airbus A350. “Sometime over the next 12 months we’ll be evaluating what kind of fleet we’ll have post 2017-18 onwards, and we’re still in that process,