Tiger Airways has announced plans to hire 100 new staff as it ramps up flights to pre-grounding levels. The budget carrier is due to launch service on its Sydney-Brisbane route from August 1 and will increase daily flights across its network from 44 to 64 by October. That comes after the carrier last month opened
Virgin Australia and Skywest Airlines have named Flight Training Adelaide as the preferred training provider for their new cadet pilot program. The first 56-week training course is scheduled to begin in December. Following graduation, cadets will work as first officers on Virgin’s Skywest-operated ATR turboprop fleet for three years or 1,500 hours before transitioning to
Air New Zealand will design and operate a new Star Alliance ‘super-lounge’ at Los Angeles International Airport as it prepares to move into the airport’s upgraded international terminal. The new lounge, which will be used by eight Star Alliance partners including Lufthansa, Singapore Airlines and Swiss Air, will be three times the size of Air
Regional Express hopes its ten year birthday party can distract attention from an ugly public relations mauling after an insulting letter it sent to a passenger went public. In the letter, written in response to complaints of poor service on flights between Sydney and the southern NSW town of Griffith, a Rex employee writes that
Few airlines seem as keen to tinker with their livery as Air New Zealand, which has announced plans for a full fleet update starting next year. The overhaul will see the tails of all new aircraft painted black and a modernisation of the airline’s lettering. The black tails follow a promotion last year that saw
Tiger Airways has trimmed its Australian losses as it returns to full operations, but says the intensifying capacity war between Qantas and Virgin Australia means it will take longer than expected for Tiger to turn a profit. Tiger reported an operating loss in Australia of $16 million for the three months ending in June, improving
