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…
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 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…
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…
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,…
After a long wait, Malaysia Airlines has finally joined one of the three global airline alliance, oneworld. It seems like a long time, but it's actually been a fairly normal wait time. There is, after all, a lot of integration…
Malaysia Airlines has launched a revamped booking system, a much-needed refresh of what is arguably the most important part of any airline's website. The old website wasn't dreadful, but the new system does add some improvements, such as: [lists style="thumbs-up"]…
