The airline will fly three times per week from Perth to Manila starting 27 November, and from Brisbane to Cebu starting 3 December, using its A321neo LR fleet. Between them, the new routes will add more than 108,000 seats per year between Australia and the Philippines.

Katie Cooper, who recently left her position leading Metro Tasmania, will succeed Shane O’Hare, who announced his own departure in April.

The Flying Kangaroo and its low-cost arm have been assigned 52 per cent of take-off and landing slots in Sydney between late October 2025 and the end of March 2026, with Virgin Australia taking 19 per cent of the total allocation, according to data released by slot manager ACL Asia Pacific (ACL).

The organisation, based in Queensland, assisted 8,497 people in the 2024-25 financial year, up 3.9 per cent on its previous record last year. This translates to one patient every 62 minutes across its medical teams, helicopter and jet fleets.