15 Apr 2021
Virgin Australia Group has announced fast-tracked plans to acquire new aircraft, create more frontline jobs and grow its network to further support domestic tourism.
The recovery efforts include the reintroduction of 10 additional Boeing 737-800 aircraft and the planned return of more than 80 per cent of the airline’s pre-pandemic domestic capacity by mid-June.
Network operational changes will also allow the airline to redeploy Boeing 737 aircraft to other parts of its network over the coming months.
After a year of rolling state-based restrictions, Virgin said pent-up travel demand is supporting the launch of several new and expanded services and frequencies on key leisure and business routes.
Cant and lawsuits: Rear Windowâs year in review
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Any bona fide review of the calendar year that corporate and political Australia have endured would necessarily run to hundreds of pages. In this format, sadly, we can only scan through the highlights of the highlights.
âUnprecedentedâ was, intolerably, the word of 2020. And all of it was: the border closures, the market meltdown, the lockdowns, the government spending, the market recovery, and the gruesome spectacle of the health crisis mishandled elsewhere.
Out the door: Treasury Wine Estates CEO Mike Clarke. Â
David Rowe
The Prime Minister began the year a national outcast after his spectacularly poor handling of last summerâs bushfires. But after his command performance throughout the pandemic, ScoMoâs Hawaiian snafu is ancient history and his ascendancy is seemingly entrenched.