QantasLink claimed top honours for punctuality in 2018, figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics show.
This week's Throwback Thursday feature is Geoffrey Thomas' story from April 2009 on the launch of new entrant on the Australia-US route, V Australia.
Australia's competition watchdog and Virgin Australia have argued a proposed codeshare agreement between Cathay Pacific and Qantas would lead to a lessening of competition on Australia-Hong Kong routes.
Alliance Aviation Services says it will operate flights on behalf of Virgin Australia until the end of 2021 under a new contract.
Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti has questioned plans from Cathay Pacific and Qantas to expand a codeshare agreement to include each other's flights from the key markets of Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney to Hong Kong.
Virgin Australia chief executive John Borghetti says market conditions are uncertain for the year ahead as the potential impact from global factors leaves him cautions about predicting what rest of calendar 2019 will hold for the airline. While the Australian market was in robust health, external events from the price of oil to geopolitical tensions
