Virgin Blue to slip into the red on oil, disasters
Virgin Blue has revealed it is on track to make a loss of between $30 and $80 million for the current financial year, with the airline blaming a challenging second half due to rising global fuel prices and natural disasters. Virgin Blue says record fuel prices will add an extra $50 million to the airline’s
Jetstar has continued to maintain its existing flight schedule between Australia and Japan, while making a change to its daily Gold Coast to Tokyo route in the aftermath of the country’s devastating earthquake and tsunami which struck less than two weeks ago. The airline has continued to operate its 25 weekly regular return services to
Bankstown ‘Fly Free’ a success: Sydney Metro
Sydney Metro Airport Bankstown has given its recent Fly Free Weekends initiative the thumbs up, judging the program to be a success after it tracked a 4.3 per cent increase in movements over previous quarter weekend data. “The recent trends in the General Aviation activity have been depressed with traffic falling 20 per cent in
Strategic Airlines has announced plans to lease two major new premises in Brisbane, comprising an engineering hangar maintenance facility at Brisbane Airport and a new corporate headquarters. “Pending the granting by the Civil Aviation Safety Authority of Strategic’s engineering license, we intend to use the original Boeing hangar facility to undertake engineering maintenance on the
RAAF C-17s carry water cannon system to Japan
Two RAAF C-17s have been transporting a remotely operated water cannon system to Japan which will be used in efforts to cool the Fukushima no 1 nuclear powerplant. “Last night and early this morning, at the request of Japan and the United States, two Royal Australian Air Force C-17 aircraft departed RAAF Pearce near Perth
Auckland Airport and Queenstown Airport have announced the cancellation of an agreement which would have seen Auckland Airport increase its Queenstown Airport shareholding. “We recognise that the prospect of an increase in Auckland Airport’s existing shareholding has been the subject of considerable debate within the community and has been a key factor in the [Queenstown
