Virgin Australia Holdings has announced its intention to be the country's first airline to operate flights with pets onboard under a plan unveiled today.
Senior executives at Virgin Australia have told Business News suggestions that chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka was forced out are “scurrilous nonsense”.
Virgin Australia chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka has resigned, after leading the company through administration and the COVID-19 pandemic over the past four years.
Vanessa Hudson has the right stuff in spades to captain Qantas through the next phase of its extraordinary flight path that has already spanned 103 years.
Virgin has joined Qantas in pushing for mandatory vaccination of its frontline workforce by mid-November, with office-based staff given until March 2022.
Virgin Australia has "turned a corner" from the worst of the COVID-19 pandemic and is about to dramatically expand its operations, the airline's CEO says.
Australia's major airlines have taken precarious steps towards ramping up operations, with Virgin targeting a return to 80 per cent of its pre-pandemic domestic capacity by June.
A slew of external hires head up Virgin Australia's newly minted executive team, with outsiders named to key operational, corporate affairs and finance management roles.
