Transport minister Catherine King says it is unlikely the airline will be saved, while insiders think repossessed planes will be returned to the US
Bonza’s fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8 planes remain parked at airports across Australia after the budget airline entered voluntary administration.Bonza’s fleet of Boeing 737 Max 8 planes remain parked at airports across Australia after the budget airline entered voluntary administration.
Bonza is the latest victim of Australian neoliberalism. It’s hard to see a new airline arriving any time soon | John QuigginThe administrators also met with Bonza’s chief financial officer, Lidia Valenzuela, “to go through the financial position of the Company with a view to updating creditors of that position in due course”.
Online forums featuring Bonza passengers unable to contact the airline have been flooded with stories of customers contesting the charges for their bookings with their banks as the only way to pursue refunds. With Bonza’s entrance, there were four major airline groups competing on a single domestic route for the first time in Australian aviation, between the Gold Coast and Melbourne.
As administrators continued considering the airline’s future on Wednesday, the airline’s five remaining Boeing 737-8 Max aircraft in Australia sat on tarmacs; two each at its Melbourne Tullamarine and Sunshine Coast airport bases and one at Gold Coast airport. Without aircraft, reviving the airline would be costly, as the availability of Boeing 737 Max 8s that its pilots are trained on has become more scarce due to a slowdown in production at Boeing.
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