Andrew Glance, currently the executive manager of commercial partnerships and Qantas business rewards, has been with Qantas since 2002 and with Loyalty since 2016. He will assume the CEO role when Wirth departs at the end of February following her resignation in October last year.
The agreement will see 17 new Link Airways regional services, equivalent to around 90 services per week, join Virgin Australia’s regional network – a significant expansion for Virgin in the eastern states, which are largely untouched by the Perth-based Virgin Australia Regional Airlines.
Of the four Public Transport Victoria bus routes available, only the 902 operates after 7:45pm or more than once an hour, and many residents of surrounding suburbs have poor access to airport buses despite the airport employing more than 18,000 people.
The route, launching on 9 December, will initially fly five return services per week, increasing to daily from March 2025. The flights are expected to add more than 60,000 seats between Darwin and Singapore per year, and offer easier access from the Northern Territory to destinations in Europe and Asia.
The two jets, formerly owned by the Republic of Singapore Air Force, crashed in Port Phillip Bay on 19 November 2023, killing two men on board one of the aircraft.
The consumer watchdog is calling on customers who held tickets on cancelled Qantas flights scheduled to depart between 1 May 2022 and 31 July 2022 to fill out an online survey regarding the details of cancelled flights, how and when customers were notified, and how they were affected.