Virgin Australia’s outgoing boss Jayne Hrdlicka says the airline has fixed its on-time performance problems despite ongoing delivery issues at Boeing.
Virgin Australia boss Jayne Hrdlicka says the carrier has put its recent poor on-time performance behind it and was sticking with Boeing to upgrade its fleet despite the global manufacturing giant’s production issues.
Virgin beat Qantas in the number of on-time departures and arrivals for the first time in 19 months in April. It also had a lower rate of flight cancellations. “I think we made a good choice... The benefits in our business from having a single fleet type are significant being quite simple and strict about it. Both Boeing and Airbus are having challenges... Our industry was never meant to stop, it’s a complex supply chain and getting it back in balance takes some time,” she said.
She added that it was unlikely that Bain would entertain a similar ownership structure to Virgin’s past iteration, which relied on multiple foreign airlines taking stakes in the airline. Virgin’s codeshare partner Qatar Airways has been rumoured to be seeking a stake in the revamped airline.
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