Save more on flights to spend on your holiday
As the holiday season approaches and airlines are looking at difficult times, now is a good time for travellers to look at the various holiday season offerings available for great fares to their favoured destinations. To get the best fares,…
AirAsia officially launches on-board Wi-Fi
Air Asia has this morning, 4th November, launched its on-board Wi-Fi service, roKKi Chats, allowing guests to use instant messaging apps while on-board selected flights. To make use of the service, patrons on board Wi-Fi enabled flights may purchase tokens on a…
Virgin Australia H1 Results
We're at the pointy end of reporting season, with Virgin Australia reporting its half-year results to 31 December 2013 today. The group made an $AUD 84 million loss, compared with a $23 million profit in the corresponding 2012 period. Virgin…
Qantas strategic changes from H2 2014
Amongst the Qantas H1 results announcement sit some details that make for uncomfortable reading for Qantas passengers. Qantas will increase their 737 utilisation domestically, and will keep the A330 focus on coast-to-coast and peak triangle (BNE-MEL-SYD) services. Here's what they added: A330-200s…
Qantas H1 Results
Qantas has just announced an Underlying PBT half-year loss of AUD 252 million from July 1 2013. The troubled international division has recorded an Underlying EBIT of $262 million ($91 million a year ago) and domestic made a profit of $57 million ($218m a…
MaxYourSpace: Empty Seat Option for Scoot
The Centre for Aviation is reporting that Scoot plans the rollout of an in-house version of the ESo, or Empty Seat Option, for economy travellers. The product is destined to be launched on the 777, and will be called MaxYourSpace. There…
Qantas-Emirates alliance gets conditional nod from ACCC
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has at long last granted final approval to the proposed alliance between Qantas and Emirates. It's been a long road, with excitement building through draft determinations, interim authorisations and now final approval. All the while,…