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Qantas Group has expanded its Western Australian presence, moving into the Perth Airport operated Terminal 3. Following Virgin Australia’s move across the airport to its new T1 Domestic facility, T3 was flagged for Qantas Group use. This allowed Jetstar services to move from T4 to T3, as well as opening up aerobridge access to a
Qantas says it has “arrested” the decline in revenue per seat in its domestic businesses as it continues to suppress capacity in response to weaker demand. In its monthly traffic statistics report released to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) on Monday, Australia’s largest airline group said revenue per available seat kilometre (RASK) across its domestic businesses (Qantas and
Jetstar is to begin three times weekly direct flights between Adelaide and the Sunshine Coast from September 30, the Qantas-owned low-cost carrier announced on Friday. The new flights will operate with 180-seat Airbus A320s on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays, and add a further 56,000 seats a year into the Sunshine Coast market. This content is
Jetstar is the second airline to schedule evening flights into and out of Queenstown Airport. The Qantas-owned low-cost carrier plans to operate a daily Melbourne-Queenstown service with Airbus A320s from June 24 that lands at the popular New Zealand tourist destination at 1920 local time, before turning around and returning to Australia at 2020. This
Qantas expects to take delivery of the first of 99 Airbus A320neo (new engine option) aircraft the airline group has on order from the end of calendar 2017. The guidance for A320neo arrivals was outlined at Qantas’s 2015/16 first half financial results on Tuesday. Airbus delivered the first A320neo to Lufthansa in early January. This
Qantas plans to maintain its Boeing 747-400/400ER fleet at 11 aircraft for the period ahead to take advantage of the growing demand for international air travel and lower fuel prices, as the airline group reported a record profit in the first half of 2015/16. Statutory Net profit after tax for the six months to December
