Hong Kong Airlines plans to boost its schedule to the Gold Coast and Cairns for the peak school holiday season. The full-service carrier will increase its Hong Kong-Gold Coast-Cairns-Hong Kong service to five times a week from December 9. Further, the airline plans to run daily services to the two popular Queensland tourist destinations during
All of Australia’s domestic carriers bar Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) improved their on-time performance in July, government figures show. VARA was the only carrier to suffer a drop in punctuality in August, with the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) monthly report showing 75.9 per cent of its flights departed within 15
Australia’s competition regulator approved an extension of Virgin Australia’s alliance with Singapore Airlines (SIA) for a further five years. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said on Friday the alliance, which was first approved in 2011, “has resulted, and is likely to continue to result, in material public benefits”. While Virgin and SIA had
Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) and Alliance Airlines say their proposed charter alliance will allow them to compete more effectively against the “one-stop shop” offering from Qantas. The pair is seeking Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) approval to work together in the charter market on joint tendering for corporate fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) contracts. The application
Hawaiian Airlines says it will reduce carbon dioxide emissions by about 670,000 kilograms a year on its three times weekly Brisbane-Honolulu flights through the use of more efficient operations on the ground and in the air. Tuesday’s flight HA443, operated by Airbus A330-200 N378HA, was the first time Hawaiian had flown the route utilising seven environmental
Gate Gourmet has opened the doors to its new aviation catering facility at Brisbane Airport. The global aviation catering company’s managing director for Oceania Tony Woodhouse said the new facility would ensure Gate Gourmet was well placed for the expected growth in air traffic at Brisbane in the years ahead, particularly with the new parallel
