Improved flying conditions have allowed the first flights from Australia to Bali to take off in more than five days, starting with Jetstar’s JQ47 departing Brisbane early Monday morning. Both Jetstar and Virgin Australia have suspended service to Bali in recent days due to the ash cloud from the Mount Raung volcano eruptions making conditions
Virgin Australia expects to have the first of its six-strong fleet of Airbus A330-200s fitted with new business class suites by the middle of August. The first aircraft to be reconfigured with the B/E Aerospace manufactured business class seats, VH-XFH, headed to Singapore to have the new seats fitted on August 1 according to flight
Moody’s Investors Service has upgraded Qantas’s credit rating in recognition of the airline’s improved financial performance. Qantas’s senior unsecured rating has risen one notch to Ba1, from Ba2 previously, Moody’s said in a statement on Friday. The ratings agency noted Qantas had been paying down debt and reducing secured debt in recent times, as well
Virgin Australia is converting orders it holds for 17 Boeing 737-800 aircraft into 737 MAX 8 orders. Virgin already has 23 737 MAX 8s on order, so this conversion will take its total order book for the type to 40. The airline’s first MAX delivery remains on track for 2018. The 17 737-800s that have
Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti says the airline group is on track to return to profitability in 2015/16 as market conditions improve. Borghetti says Virgin and its wholly-owned low-cost carrier Tigerair are on a “positive trajectory”, with unit revenue increasing, unit costs decreasing and operational performance and customer satisfaction continuing to improve. “As a
Tigerair Australia will introduce a new fleet type and commence international operations from March 2016 when it begins flights to Bali just in time for the Easter holidays. As part of wider changes to Virgin’s loss-making international network, Virgin will hand over the Adelaide-Bali, Melbourne-Bali and Perth-Bali routes to its wholly-owned low-cost unit Tigerair from
