Virgin Australia’s latest Airbus A330-200 has landed in Singapore on its way back to Australia. The aircraft, registration VH-XFJ, took off from Toulouse at 2355 local time on Monday as flight VA9948 and landed at Singapore Changi Airport at 1841 on Tuesday, according to flight tracking website flightradar24.com. The Airbus A330-200 will be the sixth
Air New Zealand and Singapore Airlines will begin their alliance on January 6 2015, the first day of the Kiwi flag carrier’s return to Singapore. Under the tie-up, the two carriers will codeshare on each other’s flights between Auckland and Singapore, offering a double-daily frequency on the route as well as connections beyond Singapore to
The 2012/13 capacity surge that in large part left both Australia’s major carriers swimming in red ink slowed to a trickle in 2013/14, giving hope that the aviation sector can return to profitability this year. Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) showed Australia’s domestic carriers added 1.4 per cent more
The Air New Zealand subsidiary that helped design the Skycouch has been sold to a UK-based airline interiors design, engineering and manufacturing company. The airline said on Monday its wholly-owned Altitude Aerospace Interiors was being offloaded to AIM Aviation. Altitude Aerospace Interiors was established in 2008 and it workforce of about 100 staff designed, engineered
Hamilton Island will maintain a second airline service to Brisbane with QantasLink to operate the route four times a week from the end of November. Running between Friday and Monday, the flights start on November 28 and will be operated by Q400 aircraft with 74 seats, QantasLink said in a statement on Monday. QantasLink’s new
Qantas and Jetstar were the best and second-best major domestic airlines for on-time performance in August, while Virgin Australia had the highest number of cancellations and its low-cost offshoot Tigerair Australia registered some improvement. However, the figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show Regional Express (Rex) was Australia’s most punctual domestic
