Tiger Airways Australia celebrated its second anniversary on November 23, launching a sale which will see 100,000 tickets sold for only $2. “We’ve come a long way since our first flight left Melbourne airport at 6:15 am on 23 November 2007 bound for the Gold Coast,” said managing director Shelley Roberts. “Two years on, having
V Australia’s first flight from Brisbane to Phuket departed on November 22, with the outbound Boeing 777-300ER operating a full flight. “With our first flight full to overflowing it’s obvious that Queenslanders have been waiting sometime for a direct service to Phuket and V Australia is pleased to be filling that gap,” Virgin Blue chief
AAPA, the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, has raised doubts about the sustainability of the recovery in passenger and cargo volumes during recent months as it recorded another drop in figures during October. Noting that recovery remains ‘tentative’, AAPA said that passenger traffic during October reached 11.1 million, which was higher than the previous month
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) is investigating an incident where GPWS alerts went off during the landing of a Virgin Blue Boeing 737 at Darwin Airport on November 6. The aircraft, operating a flight from Brisbane, is understood to have been making its third landing attempt after two earlier approaches on a different runway
Qantas recorded the highest percentage of domestic on time departures during October, according to a recently released report from BITRE. During the month, 86.4 per cent of Qantas’s flights departed on time, followed by Virgin Blue at 84.7 per cent, Jetstar at 77.2 per cent and Tiger Airways at 74.2 per cent. The regional airlines
Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey told a luncheon on November 19 that action taken by his airline’s staff during the economic crisis have helped it survive the most challenging time for the aviation industry since the dawn of the jet era. Godfrey told the Queensland Media Club that while the airline came close to issuing
