Category: Jetstar

Low-cost carrier Jetstar will open two new international routes from the Gold Coast when it starts flights from the Queensland tourist hotspot to Wellington and Queenstown from December. The Qantas subsidiary says it will fly three times a week to both the New Zealand capital and Queenstown from the Gold Coast using 180-seat Airbus A320 aircraft. This content

While domestic capacity discipline seems to be the order of the day at Qantas and Virgin Australia, it is a different story for the nation’s two low-cost carriers Tigerair and Jetstar. Qantas’s latest traffic statistics indicate the Flying Kangaroo (including QantasLink) reduced domestic capacity, as measured by available seat kilometres (ASK) by 2.7 per cent

Qantas has pushed back the deadline for exercising the first of its 50 options and purchase rights for Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft for 12 months and confirmed it has delayed delivery of Airbus A320neos for Jetstar by four years. The airline group also plans to reduce its overall fleet to below 300 aircraft during 2014/15 as

Qantas says its group domestic operations – Qantas Domestic (including QantasLink) and Jetstar – have posted an underlying EBIT of “just below” $50 million for the 2014 financial year, which CEO Alan Joyce says makes them “in all likelihood, the only profitable airlines in the domestic market”. While the Qantas accounts do not break out Jetstar’s domestic and