Royal Brunei Airlines will increase its Brunei-Melbourne service from four times weekly to daily beginning on March 25, a year after launching the route. The service — Royal Brunei’s only Australian route — offers passengers onward connections to China and London. The increase in service will amount to an additional 88,920 seats. “With the Olympic
Air New Zealand CEO Rob Fyfe has announced plans to resign at the end of 2012, ending a seven year tenure that has seen the carrier bounce back from rocky financial times and establish a reputation atop the airline industry. “After almost a decade at Air New Zealand, I am an Air New Zealander to
The ACCC has given interim approval to an expanded alliance between Virgin Australia and Skywest aimed at tapping demand from the resources and mining industries. The alliance, offering bundled passenger services to businesses wanting a combination of charter, domestic and international flights, represents an effort by Virgin to step up its competition with Qantas in
International passenger travel across the Asia Pacific rose 3.5 per cent last year amid slackening cargo demand, according to year end figures released by the Association of Asia Pacific Airlines. The region’s airlines carried 190 million international passengers in 2011 as sustained economic growth propped up demand for both business and leisure travel. Growing airline
Virgin Australia has announced a series of extra flights across popular corporate, resource sector and leisure routes to meet what the airline describes as rising demand. The additional flights, commencing service next month, include the following: Adelaide-Melbourne: An additional return flight Mondays through Fridays; taking total flights between the two cities up to 10 per
Australia’s consumer watchdog has filed legal action against AirAsia X, claiming the Malaysia based LCC failed to disclose the full price of international flights from Australia. In documents filed in the Federal Court on Tuesday, the ACCC alleges the airline’s website did not include taxes and fees as part of advertised AirAsia X fares to
