Virgin Australia, Qantas and Hawaiian Airlines are to begin offering “rescue fares” for passengers stranded by the collapse of Air Australia. An estimated 4000 passengers are stuck in Thailand, Bali and Hawaii after the budget carrier was unable to pay for fuel and abruptly ceased flying and went into voluntary administration. Virgin said it would
The travel plans of hundreds of passengers have been thrown into disarray with the financial collapse of Air Australia, with the company’s director calling in John Park and Mark Korda of KordaMentha as Voluntary Administrators in the early hours of this morning. “It currently appears that there are no funds available to meet operational expenses
Start up charter airline JetGo Australia will lease an Embraer ERJ-135 for use in fly-in fly-out (FIFO) services targeting the natural resource and mining sectors, Embraer has announced. Delivery of the 37-seat jet is scheduled for the end of February. JetGo said it would use the jet for charter services from eastern seaboard cities to
Qantas will slash 500 jobs and launch a review of maintenance operations likely to lead to more cuts and the shutting of maintenance facilities after announcing an 83 per cent drop in half yearly profits today. The airline said its underlying pre-tax profits for the six months ending December 31 fell to $202 million, down
Fijian national carrier Air Pacific has selected Rolls-Royce Trent 700 engines to power its three new Airbus A330-200s. The deal, announced today at the Singapore Airshow, is valued at US$210 million at current list prices and includes support services. Air Pacific, which is 46 per cent owned by Qantas, expects to begin receiving the new
AirAsia X was forced to make a number of changes to flightcrew procedures and training programs after a pair of operational non-compliances during approaches to Gold Coast Airport in May 2010, the ATSB said in a report released on Friday. According to the report, an AirAsia X A330-343E was making a non-precision instrument approach to
