Virgin Australia annual general meeting signalled Game On to its rivals as the first phase of the airline’s transformation comes to close and the second phase – certain to be of ongoing concern to domestic and international competitors – begins. Posting solid growth across all key commercial and financial indicators, Virgin Australia chairman Neil Chatfield
Air New Zealand will operate a second season of nonstop services from the Sunshine Coast to Auckland. Twice-weekly services will operate between June 18 and October 13 2013 and follows the success of inaugural seasonal direct flights this year. The services, which are scheduled each Tuesday and Sunday, will be operated by A320s and will
Garuda Indonesia will return to Brisbane from August 2013 after vacating the route three years ago as part of its drive to consolidate its financial position. The airline is now seeking to cash in on growth in travel demand between Australia and Indonesia, which in the first half of this year increased 20 per cent
Tiger Airways has implemented an auditable process for identifying and managing navigational database anomalies that were a primary contributor to the incident on June 7 2011 that allowed the crew of an A320 on approach to Melbourne to descend 500ft below the minimum altitude of 2,500ft, the ATSB has said in its report on the
Emirates’ A380 A6-EDA at the Qantas Jet Base after the engine fire incident that forced the crew to return to Sydney. (Lee Gatland) A fire in an engine aboard an Emirates A380 soon after departure from Sydney forced the crew to return to the airport on November 11. Flight EK413, with 380 passengers aboard, was
The board of Qantas has approved the repayment of $650 million in debt six months ahead of schedule and the buy-back of approximately four per cent of the company’s issued shares to the value of up to $100 million. The transactions begin this month. Qantas chairman Leigh Clifford said the Qantas group is well positioned in
