Category: Aviation

Both Virgin and Qantas have applied to the International Air Services Commission for more capacity to Denpasar, with Virgin’s promise to use Australia-based crews winning the support of the influential union over Jetstar’s pitch for lower average airfa…

Written by former columnist for The Australian Financial Review, Joe Aston, The Chairman’s Lounge – published by Simon & Schuster – follows a “year-long campaign of investigative commentary on Qantas” which the publisher says led to the resignatio…

The first flight from Shanghai Pudong, MU7389, touched down just after 10:30am on Friday aboard the 232-seat A330-200 B-8231. China Eastern will operate three non-stop return services per week, on Monday, Thursday and Saturday, until 18 February.

Last month saw 74.3 per cent of Rex services depart on time and 70.6 per cent arrive on time. In contrast, Qantas had 69.5 per cent on-time departures and 67.8 per cent on-time arrivals, with Virgin the worst of the three at 56.5 per cent on-time depar…