{"id":14814,"date":"2025-02-23T22:52:50","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T04:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14814"},"modified":"2025-02-24T22:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T04:19:24","slug":"virgin-australia-off-to-a-flying-start-in-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/?p=14814","title":{"rendered":"Virgin Australia off to a flying start in 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Story from Virgin Australia<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>February 23, 2025:<\/b> Virgin Australia continues to lead the country\u2019s major airlines<sup>1<\/sup>\u00a0on on-time performance (OTP) and the completion of scheduled flights, according to January data released by the\u00a0Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) today.<\/p>\n<p>Virgin Australia completed 99.2 per cent of scheduled domestic flights in January and achieved a departure OTP rate of 78 per cent \u2013 well ahead of its major competitors. The airline\u2019s completion rate remains above the long-term average for Australian domestic carriers of 97.8 per cent and is closing in fast on the OTP long-term average of 80.7 per cent<sup>2<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Click the link to read the. full story! -&gt;\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.virginaustralia.com\/au\/en\/newsroom\/2025\/2\/virgin-australia-industry-leading-performance\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Virgin Australia off to a flying start in 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Virgin-Qatar Airways alliance will \u2018increase choice and competition\u2019 for Australians\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yMmoqXr02U0?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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Story from Virgin Australia February 23, 2025: Virgin Australia continues to lead the country\u2019s major airlines1\u00a0on on-time performance (OTP) and the completion of scheduled flights, according to January data released by the\u00a0Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics (BITRE) today. Virgin Australia completed 99.2 per cent of scheduled domestic flights in January and achieved a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[797,9181,5637,1103],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-airline-news","category-australia-news","category-business-news","category-travel-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814","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=14814"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14821,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14814\/revisions\/14821"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planesintheair.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}