Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti has questioned plans from Cathay Pacific and Qantas to expand a codeshare agreement to include each other's flights from the key markets of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney to Hong Kong.
Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti says market conditions are uncertain for the year ahead as the potential impact from global factors leaves him cautions about predicting what rest of calendar 2019 will hold for the airline. While the Australian market was in robust health, external events from the price of oil to geopolitical tensions
Virgin Australia returned to profitability in 2018/19 first half amid ongoing improvement in its domestic business and despite higher fuel costs.
Qantas has sought to reassure regulators its proposed codeshare with Cathay Pacific would not harm competition and instead offer travellers more choice for travel between Australia and Asia.
Air New Zealand has turned around a Boeing 787-9 enroute from Auckland to Shanghai after discovering mid-flight the aircraft was not permitted to land in China.
This story first appeared in the December 2018 edition of Australian Aviation magazine. The outlook is looking more positive for Cobham Aviation Services Australia, now an autonomous division within the large British defence and aerospace group, Cobham Plc, thanks to what it regards as “green shoots” in its valuable resources industry operations. It is also
