Virgin Australia has written to Australia’s competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), to complain about allegedly anti-competitive comments made by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce. Virgin MD Paul Scurrah wrote asking the ACCC “to investigate public commentary and an industry-wide campaign by Qantas that is designed to ensure a lessening of competition in…
Virgin Australia has posted a video on their Twitter of Cabin Supervisor Cassy making a final cabin announcement on a Virgin Australia service to Dunedin, New Zealand. In the emotional announcement Cassy says, “As crew we’ve called the skies our home for so long. It’s a little surreal knowing that we’ve come back down to…
Virgin Australia announced today that it would slash domestic capacity by 90% and completely ground it’s LCC Tigerair. The Tigerair grounding is effective immediately while Virgin’s capacity reduction comes into effect from midnight 27 March Australian Eastern Daylight Saving time and will apply until 14 June. 8000 of the Group’s staff will be stood down.…
Singapore Airlines will cut capacity by 96 per cent until the end of April. The decision comes following the further tightening of border controls around the world to stem the Covid-19 outbreak. This will result in the grounding of around 138 Singapore Airlines and SilkAir aircraft, out of a total fleet of 147. The company…
The Ryanair Group expects most of its flights to be grounded from Tuesday 24th March until the end of May, according to its CEO Michael O’Leary. The announcement comes today in a message from O’Leary to all Ryanair Group airline customers, citing governments’ unprecedented restrictions on citizen movement, specifically with bans that have closed Europe…
The UAE Government has made the decision to bring forward the date of suspension for all inbound, outbound, and transit flights. All aircraft that are currently outside the UAE will continue to operate as planned until landing into Abu Dhabi and Dubai.
Airport lounges look set to be the next casualty of the coronavirus pandemic, with London’s Heathrow Airport this weekend closing almost all of its business and first class lounges following a decree by Prime Minister Boris Johnson to shut down social hubs such as pubs, clubs, restaurants, cinemas, theatres and gyms across the country. British…
Qantas will operate its Sydney to London service via Darwin from Tuesday after restrictions in Singapore over refuelling. As Singapore is closed to transit pax Qantas is routing #QF1 SYD-LHR flight via Darwin for the next few days given. You can watch live London Heathrow Airport. The change to the flagship route will be the…
Boeing announced a temporary suspension of production operations at its Puget Sound area facilities in light of the state of emergency in Washington state and the company’s continuous assessment of the accelerating spread of the coronavirus in the region. These actions are being taken to ensure the well-being of employees, their families and the local…
The Indian government ordered all the country’s airlines to ground their planes, bringing the domestic aviation sector to a halt as authorities step up efforts to contain the spread of the novel coronavirus. The order deals a blow to the airlines that are already battling a ban on international travel after the virus outbreak raged…
Effective from 11.59pm on Wednesday 25 March, at the directive of the Government of the UAE, Etihad Airways will suspend all flights to, from and via Abu Dhabi for an initial period of 14 days. This decision has been made to help contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus, and to protect the UAE, its…
The south of Paris airport could close by the end of March, according to the secretary of ‘State of transport, Jean-Baptiste Djebbari. The airport in the south of Paris could close its doors due to the collapse of air traffic. The remaining activity would be transferred to Paris Roissy airport (CDG), north of Paris. The…