Australian Aviation

In an internal memo to Virgin staff obtained by Australian Aviation, outgoing CEO Jayne Hrdlicka said the airline had made roughly $236 million in profit off the back of $2.8 billion in revenue in the six months to December 31, and had carried nearly 45 million passengers since it left administration.

The judge made the damning criticism of the airline after Theo Seremetidis directed cleaning staff to steer clear of aircraft that had recently returned from Covid-19 hotspots in 2020.

From late October this year, the Flying Kangaroo will replace E190s with 737s on its Brisbane-Wellington services, adding more than 600 weekly seats, as well as seasonally increasing Brisbane-Apia flights from three to five per week until mid-January, adding more than 300 weekly seats.

Digital aerodrome services use cameras and sensors to replace traditional physical air traffic control towers, and are faster and cheaper to construct. The digital tower, operated from a new centre at Eastern Creek in western Sydney, will be the first of its kind in Australia when it opens in 2026.

The route, to commence on 3-4 June, will operate from Hanoi every Monday and Friday using Vietjet’s A330 fleet, returning from Melbourne on Tuesdays and Saturdays. The service complements Vietjet’s existing flights between Melbourne and Ho Chi Minh City.

The northern tunnel borers for the Western Sydney Airport metro have reached the halfway mark en route to the new interchange at St Marys. When complete, the full metro line will connect the Bradfield “aerotropolis” in the south to the Sydney Trains network at St Marys in the north.