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Bonza was founded in October 2021 by former Virgin Blue executive Tim Jordan. [1] [2] U.S. investment firm 777 Partners were the inaugural investors and backers.[1]The airline signalled its intention to disassociate from the main cities of Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane, [1] instead setting up its headquarters at Sunshine Coast Airport [3] with the aim of growing the market by focusing on ...
Bonza, the first budget airline to launch in Australia since 2007, took off for domestic destinations from Queensland’s Sunshine Coast in January 2023. Melbourne, Port Macquarie, ...
Renamed from Premier Airlines in 1996 and rebranded as Tasman Cargo Airlines in 2008 Associated Airlines: 1938: 2000: Air services on behalf of Consolidated Zinc and BHP. Operated de Havilland Heron, Grumman Gulfstream [32] Atlass Aviation: 2008: 2009: Aerial survey. Operated Partenavia P.68 [33] Augusta Airways: BH: 1983: 1998
A Boeing 737 MAX 8 operated by Bonza, at Sunshine Coast Airport. 777 owns low-cost carrier Flair Airlines. [8] In June 2022, the Canadian Transportation Agency ruled that Flair is a Canadian airline and can fly domestically, as 777 owns 25% of the shares and had limited its influence on the board since the beginning of the CTA investigation. [39]
Anxious airline flyers may well remember 2024 as the year their worst fears about the safety of air travel felt confirmed, as a series of unprecedented, and in some cases fatal, airplane incidents ...
These declines have limited the airlines' abilities to order more aircraft in the near future, with Southwest cancelling some of its Boeing 737 orders for the year. [38] 30 April Australian low-cost airline Bonza which launched operations in January 2023, enters voluntary administration with all services suspended. [39]
“A passenger is entitled to a refund if the airline made a significant schedule change and/or significantly delays a flight and the passenger chooses not to travel,” the DOT states.
Operators such as Rex Airlines and Bonza came into its market but later failed, [45] [46] sparking the market being labeled 'in crisis' by the Transport Workers Union of Australia. Bonza went into liquidation, while Rex Airlines attempt to compete in the key city-city market caused the airline to go into administration in mid-2024. [47]