About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/79e92eb5acff3864c718779f8186e05987caede65c83018b86feea13

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: http://data.cimple.eu/news-article/79e92eb5acff3864c718779f8186e05987caede65c83018b86feea13 Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:NewsArticle, within Data Space : data.cimple.eu associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
rdf:type	schema:NewsArticle
schema:articleBody	Virgin Australia said on Thursday it would scrap flights between Sydney and Hong Kong, just 18 months after launching the route, blaming reduced demand caused by anti-government protests and the coronavirus outbreak. The airline began flying from Australia's biggest city to Hong Kong in mid-2018, calling its China expansion a "key pillar" of its international strategy at the time, but now admits the route proved "challenging". Virgin Australia Group chief commercial officer John MacLeod said demand had declined following months of sometimes violent protests in Hong Kong that have been followed by the coronavirus outbreak in China, which has spread to the city. "While the decision to withdraw from the Hong Kong market has been a difficult one, it demonstrates our strong focus on driving greater financial discipline through our network," he said in a statement. "Current circumstances demonstrate that Hong Kong is no longer a commercially viable route for Virgin Australia to continue operating, however international tourism remains an important part of our strategy through our other international routes and partner airlines." The route will cease operating on March 2. Australian transport department data shows Virgin's outbound Sydney-Hong Kong flights were operating at just 64 percent capacity in November, compared with 80 percent for Qantas and Cathay Pacific. The announcement comes as the airlines faces wider financial troubles, posting an underlying before-tax loss of Aus$71.2 million ($48.1 million) last year after achieving an underlying profit of Aus$64.4 million the previous financial year. Virgin also announced in November it would suspend services between Melbourne and Hong Kong from February 11. hr/arb/dan
schema:headline	Virgin Australia axes flights to crisis-hit Hong Kong
schema:mentions	Cathay Pacific Virgin Group Qantas 18 Months Melbourne Hong Kong Australia China Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 Lisa MacLeod Transport Department Chief commercial officer Virgin Australia Sydney Airport
schema:author	http://data.cimple.eu/organization/1f0054d541e000623a2c1e561a247c073ef6328e8be9ffafda7b3fcd
schema:datePublished	2020-02-06 (xsd:date)
http://data.cimple...sPoliticalLeaning	other political leaning
http://data.cimple...logy#hasSentiment	negative sentiment
http://data.cimple...readability_score	79 (xsd:integer)
http://data.cimple...tology#hasEmotion	fear

Faceted Search & Find service v1.16.115 as of Oct 09 2023

Alternative Linked Data Documents: ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3238 as of Jul 16 2024, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-musl), Single-Server Edition (126 GB total memory, 3 GB memory in use)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software