Singapore Airlines, last year made a loss of $1.1 billion, and this year a profit of $2.4 billion, representing a total turnaround of $3.5 billion – the largest in its 76-year history. That profit also indicates that Singapore Airlines also has its biggest load factor in history, at 85.8%. The...

Virgin has introduced an app that currently allows passengers traveling between Sydney and Brisbane to track their bags, according to the Australian edition of The Guardian. The ability to track your bags is in the test phase currently but is planned to expand to Adelaide, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Melbourne, and...

In 2024, when Air New Zealand (Air NZ) takes delivery of some brand new Boeing 787s, and flies them between Auckland and New York and Auckland and Chicago, you will also get the choice of booking a four hours sleep in some ‘Skynest’ bunk beds 36,000 feet in the air....

The Passenger Movement Charge, or PMC is charged to all travellers leaving Australia. Passengers currently pay AU$60 to leave Australia. That will rise to AU$70 from July 2024, representing a 16% increase. With air travel from Australia booming, this is expected to raise AU$1.3 billion in income. Way back in...

Qantas appears to be in dispute with the Australian Financial Review, according to its sister masthead the Sydney Morning Herald. It’s over the highly critical, but intensely amusing articles of Rear Window columnist Joe Ashton. You may remember the name Joe Ashoton from other posts on this blog. He is...

Qantas having a dispute with pilots is nothing new. CEO Alan Joyce shut down the whole airline in 2011 because of a dispute with pilots among other staff. This current dispute as outlined in the SMH is more nuanced and is mired in the creaking seniority system that applies to...

Qantas has just announced that Vanessa Hudson will replace Alan Joyce as CEO and Managing Director as of November 2023. Ms Hudson is currently the Qantas Group’s CFO. I detailed her long history with Qantas in a previous story on the internal candidates being interviewed. She has been with the...

Turkish Airlines has confirmed to a journalist at ET that it is renewing plans to fly directly to Australia. Way back in September 2018, pre-pandemic (the way we seem to define everything these days, even though the pandemic is not over), the then Chairman of Turkish Airlines, Ilker Ayci, announced...

According to the usually reliable Lucus Baird of the Australian Financial Review, Qantas completed interviewing internal candidates to replace Alan Joyce as CEO last week. He speculates that there might be an announcement before the end of April about who will succeed, and when they will take up the position....

The Australian Corporation and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is set to oppose the acquisition of Alliance Aviation Services Ltd by Qantas. Alliance is primarily a supplier of FYFO (Fly-in-Fly-out) services for mining and resource companies, in Queensland and Western Australia. Qantas also supplies these kind of services to the same market,...

AFF is reporting that Qantas has confirmed it will re-open its First Class Check-in Suite at Melbourne’s international terminal as of Wednesday 26 April next week. The facility has been closed since the shutdown of international flying in 2020 due to COVID-19. The Melbourne First Class check-in differs from its...

This southern hemisphere summer, United will provide more flights than any other USA airline to Australia and New Zealand. More than Qantas, and more than Air New Zealand. This will allow Americans to escape their northern hemisphere winter, and enjoy the delights of southern hemisphere summer. This will provide some...