Virgin Australia reveals expanded domestic push.
In contrast to voluntary redundancies and wage freezes announced by Qantas this morning, Virgin Australia has announced the creation of 250 new jobs on the back of five new routes and 700 extra weekly flights across the airline’s domestic network by October.
The biggest beneficiary will be destinations in the country’s north, with five new direct services to launch between Sydney-Darwin, Sydney-Townsville, Adelaide-Cairns, Melbourne-Townsville and Perth-Cairns.
Virgin Australia will also boost flight frequencies to key Queensland destinations by 40%, including Brisbane, the Whitsunday Coast, Hamilton Island, Cairns, Townsville, the Gold Coast and Sunshine Coast.
“Growing confidence in the community, thanks to the vaccination rollout and domestic borders staying largely open, means the time is right for us to bring back jobs and put more aircraft in the skies,” said Virgin Australia Group CEO Jayne Hrdlicka.
More details in today’s issue of Travel Daily.