Category: Virgin Australia

Virgin Australia says its mobile boarding passes will work with the new iPhone’s Passbook app. The app, billed as a ‘digital wallet’ for storing such things as boarding passes, movie and event tickets and membership cards, will come integrated with the new iPhone 5, scheduled to go on sale Friday. The app will also be

Virgin Australia is seeking to pry away half of Qantas’s weekly allocation of seats to Italy. In an application to the International Air Services Commission, which distributes capacity to Australian airlines under international air treaties, Virgin said it was seeking 300 seats per week to support the introduction of code sharing services on existing flights

Virgin Australia has reported an after tax profit of $22.8 million for the last financial year and will continue to press its burgeoning fare war with Qantas by adding more domestic capacity. Virgin’s full-year profits represented a $90.6 million improvement over the previous year and came on a 20 per cent increase in revenue to

Etihad Airways has purchased more than $10 million worth of Virgin Australia shares in the past three weeks as it increases its stake in its alliance partner. The Abu Dhabi based carrier earlier won approval from the Foreign Investment Review Board to increase its stake in Virgin Australia form five to 10 per cent. The