V Australia and Delta Air Lines have signed an agreement to allow reciprocal loyalty points on each others’ services, reciprocal lounge access, and the first codeshare agreement between the carriers. Effective December 15, V Australia and Delta passengers will be able to earn loyalty points on each others’ services, as well as access each others’
Liz Savage has been appointed to the role of chief commercial officer (CCO) for the Virgin Blue Airlines Group. Savage was most recently the managing director for Monarch Flights and Holidays, and prior to that had nearly 10 years with easyJet, and will take on her new role in March. She will be responsible for
Jetstar’s entry onto the ‘golden triangle’ is now complete, with the Qantas subsidiary announcing that it will start twice daily services on the Melbourne-Brisbane route from July 1. The new services will be in addition to the airline’s existing double daily services from Avalon to Brisbane, with no reduction in capacity on that service. The
Captain Marwoto Komar, who piloted the Garuda Boeing 737-400 which crash landed at Yogyakarta Airport in 2007, resulting in 21 deaths, has won an appeal against his two year prison sentence for negligence. The Yogyakarta High Court “overturned charges of negligence and said he (Komar) did his best to save the plane and passengers,” said
Regional Express has announced that it will add direct Mount Isa-Townsville flights to its network of northern Queensland services from January 31 2010. “We are starting this service in response to the persistent and genuine pleas from the local community for an air service to Townsville that is affordable and which has a business-friendly schedule,”
China Southern Airlines has announced on December 8 that it is adding two additional frequencies each week on the Sydney-Guangzhou route immediately until February 20 due to strong demand over the Christmas season. The flights will be operated by 254-seat Airbus A330-200s.
