Jetstar’s troubles in Vietnam has not held back its expansion plans of flights to the country.
While the carrier’s Vietnam joint venture, Jetstar Pacific, faces a Vietnamese government investigation into fuel hedging losses, including maintaining a ban on two Australian senior managers from leaving the country, the no-frills airline has announced it is almost doubling the [...]
Qantas yesterday reported a A$58 million ($52.2 million) profit for the half-year ended Dec. 31, down 72% from the A$210 million earned in the year-ago semester, and announced the elimination of first class service to all but two destinations in an effort to lift yield.
The group result would have been a loss but for the [...]
Budget airline Jetstar is promising to give customers what they paid for and compensate them if it doesn’t.
The Qantas offshoot has launched a new customer charter it claims is the first in the aviation industry in Australasia and southeast Asia.
Jetstar says if it breaches the 10-point charter and a customer contacts the airline, Jetstar [...]
The Jetstar Pacific Airlines (JPA) has announced it will present 500 free tickets on local routes in Vietnam in 2010.
The tickets can only be bought online at jetstar.com starting from 0hr of Feb. 14 on the first-com-first-serve basis, to be used on flights from Sept. 15-Oct.27.
On the occasion of the traditional New Year festival (Tet), [...]
Qantas’s troubled Vietnamese joint venture, Jetstar Pacific, is facing another challenge: Asia’s largest no-frills airline, AirAsia, plans to set up operations in Vietnam.
AirAsia has bought a 30 per cent stake for 180 billion dong ($11 million) in the low-cost airline VietJet Air, which will fly domestic and international routes and be renamed VietJet AirAsia.
The deal [...]
Jetstar has opened a pay-per-use lounge at Auckland Airport’s domestic terminal.
Passengers travelling on Jetstar’s domestic network can purchase entry to the Akarana Lounge to enjoy free food and beverages, as well as big-screen entertainment and business facilities including workstation areas, free Wi-Fi access and computer terminals. If booked online the charge is $9.99 a person [...]
A PASSENGER has revealed her fear at being stuck on a hot plane with 116 other people while a pilot attempted unsuccessfully to start it.
The incident occurred on board flight JQ843 from Hamilton Island to Sydney at 1:50pm on Friday.
Traveller Lepa Flaiban said passengers were stuck on the hot, stuffy A320 aircraft while the pilot [...]
SYDNEY (Dow Jones)–Qantas Airways Ltd. (QAN.AU) discount carrier Jetstar said Thursday it will use International Aero Engines V2500 jet engine to power up to 90 more Airbus aircraft it will operate, in a supply and service deal worth US$3.5 billion.
In a joint statement, Jetstar and IAE said the engine purchase agreement for 50 A320 [...]
JETSTAR will today cement its relationship with US-based International Aero Engines through a $US3.5 billion ($3.8bn) deal to supply and maintain engines for its A320 aircraft.
The Qantas offshoot will confirm a $US1.5bn deal to buy the V2500 SelectOne engine for its fleet of 50 additional A320s destined for service in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
The [...]
A GROUP of Jetstar passengers stranded for two days on the island resort of Phuket after their plane had two unrelated mechanical problems are due back in Sydney today after the airline sent another aircraft to pick them up.
The 290 passengers were due to leave for Sydney on Monday but were stranded, initially by a [...]
