Qantas to trial new boarding procedure
Key Points
- Airlines achieved an on-time rate of 69 per cent in June, from 74 per cent in May.
- Cancellation levels raise long-standing questions of slot hoarding.
- Airports declined to use the pandemic as a catalyst for redistributing slots.
Qantas is trying to address woeful on-time performance by changing the way it boards planes, after the latest official statistics showed Australia’s dominant airlines remain sharply below their pre-pandemic discipline.
Jetstar, Qantas, QantasLink, Rex Airlines, Skytrans, Virgin Australia and Virgin Australia Regional Airlines achieved an on-time rate of 69 per cent in June, while they took off 70.3 per cent of the time, the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics said. Around 74 per cent of flights departed and arrived on time this May.
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