Virgin Blue has announced that the series of computer failures it experienced during late September and early October will have an impact of $15-$20 million on its full-year earnings. The airline announced the figure in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange, and added that it “will be actively pursuing all avenues to recover this
Sydney Airport has joined AirAsia X in its campaign for the Malaysian government to grant it rights to fly from Kuala Lumpur to Sydney. The airline recently took the step of painting one of its aircraft with a message calling for the Malaysian government to “liberate Sydney” and end the monopoly that Malaysia Airlines enjoys
Skywest has recorded increases in both its RPT and charter operations during September 2010. Passenger numbers on RPT services increased by 4.91 per cent to 25,195 for the month, resulting in a 6.09 per cent increase in revenue passenger kilometres. Available seat kilometres increased by 3.03 per cent, which saw load factor increase by 1.58
QantasLink has announced that it will expand its schedule to the Queensland mining centres of Emerald, Moranbah and Roma from October 18 to support growing demand from the mining industry. “We have consulted with the mining industry, and have added some ongoing extra capacity and some peak period capacity which will operate from 18 October-18
Singapore Airlines has announced a number of changes to its local management team, effective from November. The changes will see Matthew Raos move to the role of manager New South Wales/Australian Capital Territory from November 29, succeeding Craig Astridge who will leave the company on November 26. That will result in James Dunne taking up
Canberra Airport has made a submission to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) calling for it to reconsider its draft ruling which would block the proposed trans-Tasman alliance between Virgin Blue and Air New Zealand. In a letter dated September 24 the airport’s managing director Stephen Byron argues that the proposed alliance would not
