Category: Airlines

The Canadian flag carrier and Virgin Australia codeshare partner’s previous Melbourne service using 787-9 Dreamliners was scuppered by COVID-19, but according to Air Canada’s managing director for international sales, Rocky Lo, the airline has put Melb…

The specially-fitted plane took off from Airbus’ facility in Toulouse on Tuesday for a three-hour and 43-minute flight over France and the French Atlantic coast. It comes as the second aircraft progresses through the final assembly line.

The carrier says more than 90 per cent of COVID credits have been redeemed over the past four years, and that it had made the credits “very easy to use, offering customers the ability to use their credits on all flights operated by Virgin Australia, as…