Virgin Blue has announced that it has appointed Jones Lang LaSalle to manage its property portfolio, including managing the sale and leaseback of its Brisbane headquarters, the ‘Virgin Village’. According to Jones Lang LaSalle, Virgin Blue will continue to be the sole tenant at the campus-style Virgin Village, which houses approximately 1000 employees. No estimate
Boeing, UOP and Mexico’s Airports and Auxiliary Services agency (ASA), which is an arm of the Mexican government’s Ministry of Communications and Transport, have announced a collaboration to identify, research and further the development of a commercially viable market for Mexico-sourced sustainable aviation biofuels. “This is a first-of-its-kind collaboration, involving key government, private sector and
IATA said in its August Premium Travel Monitor that bookings in business and first class in the Asia Pacific region are starting to rise again, driven in part by a general rise in trade across the region. “The strongest rise in economic and business activity has been seen in the Asia Pacific regions, where private
Regional Express (Rex) has slammed rival QantasLink, claiming that it has engaged in predatory pricing on the Townsville-Mackay route after the Qantas subsidiary increased capacity and dropped its lead-in fares to $99 one way. ”It looks like they are trying to push us out,” Rex managing director Jim Davis told the Townsville Bulletin. “We have
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told The Australian that Jetstar would not take over any more routes from the Qantas brand despite the success in turning around losses in the Japanese and domestic New Zealand markets. “We have decided that, with Qantas, we have gone to a minimum network, a network we can’t drop below,”
Cobham Aviation Services Australia has announced that it will operate regular public transport flights between Perth and Kambalda from October 19 as an extension of charter services to the Goldfields town. “One of the great benefits of the introduction of the charter service is that it has now opened up to everyone in Kambalda. Instead
