{"id":14707,"date":"2025-01-26T23:23:34","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T05:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14707"},"modified":"2025-01-26T23:26:40","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T05:26:40","slug":"virgin-australia-tops-reliability-podium-as-passenger-numbers-soar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14707","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia tops reliability podium as passenger numbers soar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Story and image from Virgin Australia<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>South Bank, Queensland, Australia, January 26, 2025<\/strong> &#8211; Virgin Australia was the country\u2019s most punctual and reliable major airline <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginaustralia.com\/au\/en\/newsroom\/2025\/1\/virgin-australia-tops-reliability-podium-as-passenger-numbers-soar\/#_ftn1\" name=\"_ftnref1\">[1]<\/a> in December according to on-time-performance (OTP) data released by the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) today.<\/p>\n<p>The airline completed 99.4% of scheduled domestic flights in December (a daily average of nearly 400 flights) and achieved a departure OTP rate of 74.7%. Notably, there were four consecutive days between Christmas and New Year when no flights were cancelled.<\/p>\n<p>December was also a record month for passenger movements, with more than 1.925 million guests flown across Virgin Australia\u2019s domestic and international network \u2013 the highest number of passengers flown on Virgin Australia services of any December in its 24-year history <a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginaustralia.com\/au\/en\/newsroom\/2025\/1\/virgin-australia-tops-reliability-podium-as-passenger-numbers-soar\/#_ftn2\" name=\"_ftnref2\">[2]<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginaustralia.com\/au\/en\/newsroom\/2025\/1\/virgin-australia-tops-reliability-podium-as-passenger-numbers-soar\/#_ftnref1\" name=\"_ftn1\">[1]<\/a> Major Australian airlines include Virgin Australia, Qantas and Jetstar.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginaustralia.com\/au\/en\/newsroom\/2025\/1\/virgin-australia-tops-reliability-podium-as-passenger-numbers-soar\/#_ftnref2\" name=\"_ftn2\">[2]<\/a> Excludes Tigerair passenger data from when Virgin Australia Group operated Tigerair.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"777 &amp; A330 - Virgin Australia\u2019s BIG Decision\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vog-SzPhYHc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-2662\" src=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/virginaustraliamax8-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"954\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/virginaustraliamax8-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/virginaustraliamax8-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/virginaustraliamax8.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 954px) 100vw, 954px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story and image from Virgin Australia South Bank, Queensland, Australia, January 26, 2025 &#8211; Virgin Australia was the country\u2019s most punctual and reliable major airline [1] in December according to on-time-performance (OTP) data released by the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) today. The airline completed 99.4% of scheduled domestic flights in December [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,9181,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14707","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-australia-news","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14707"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14712,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions\/14712"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}