Macquarie AirFinance provides leasing and financing solutions, with a portfolio of 189 aircraft leased to 77 airlines across 47 countries. Customers have included Qantas and Virgin.

Travellers were reportedly given a 90-minute warning of the situation before NZ27 departed Chicago bound for Auckland.

Skykraft has confirmed the first five satellites it launched to improve ATM in Australia are now functioning after launching last week.

The route is the Vietnamese budget airline’s first from the Victorian capital and will take capacity to the Southeast Asian country to 150 per cent of pre-COVID levels.