Almost 1,800 former ground workers, whose jobs were outsourced in 2020 in contravention of the Fair Work Act, will receive emergency payments of $3,333 each before Christmas, with the remainder to be paid pro-rata based on individual entitlements.
Starting on 1 April, the airline will increase Broome flights to 17 per week due to high demand, up more than 40 per cent on existing capacity, with new services timed to enable connections from capital cities on the east coast.
The NZ flag carrier expects 1.1 million international and 1.6 million domestic passengers over the end-of-year peak from 1 December to 31 January, including over 500,000 to Australia’s three major east coast cities alone.
Flights are now operating three times per week from Melbourne on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, adding 93,000 seats per year, with the inaugural HX013 service touching down at 11:17am on Saturday aboard the A330-300 B-LHL.
Some of these flights have block times in excess of six hours.
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