By aviation writer Scott Mayman
QANTAS has redeemed itself in the latest figures showing the airline has reduced its cancellations between Canberra and the Gold Coast and reduced cancellations on the Canberra-Sydney route from 10 per cent to less than four per cent in November.
Qantas says: “The unacceptably high number of cancellations on Qantas’ Canberra-Sydney flights has continued to drop, with a change in fleet mix used to help protect the route from disruption on the airline’s regional network.”It’s a mixed bag of punctuality results from this week’s release of data from the Bureau of Infrastructure and Transport Research Economics.
On national performances for November, the report found, REX had 74.1 per cent of on-time departures compared with Jetstar on 66.7 per cent (in Canberra, Rex has only one daily service to Melbourne).
Despite its recent fleet issues, holiday airline Bonza scored a 73.3 per cent on-time punctuality.
Qantas recorded 63.9 per cent and Virgin on 57 per cent.
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![Teacher Vanessa Jones has been living in Higgins since 2001, and while she loves the area, she says she is “fed up” with the neglectful ACT government.
The Higgins shops have been completely abandoned, says Vanessa, preventing the opportunity for residents to have a community-centred space to socialise.
They only received bins nine months ago, she says, and requests for a water station and repairs to the bus station have gone unanswered.
“It’s very, very slow,” says Vanessa.
“I asked for the zebra crossing on Fullagar [Crescent] to be repainted, and we had to wait about six or nine months.
“That’s just such a long time… we pay a lot of rates.”
Vanessa says assistance from the government only seems to go to communities with time-rich and assertive communities, leaving places such as Higgins, where the majority of households have both adults working full-time and English may not be the first language of the family, at an automatic disadvantage.
“If you’ve got two people working, paying a mortgage, raising two or three kids, they don’t have the time,” says Vanessa.
Vanessa says the lack of attention quieter places such as Higgins is receiving is starting to look a lot like favouritism.
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