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Arabic • Chinese • French • German • Italian • Japanese • Korean • Portuguese • Russian • Spanish For multiple word queries an under score must be used. e.g.  Pop_music Australian airline to increase airfares edit Wikinews Wikinews, ( )   Australian airline to increase airfares From Wikinews, the free news source you can write! Jump to: navigation, search Friday, June 13, 2008 A Virgin Blue Boeing 737 Image: User:Boticario. Australian airline Virgin Blue plans to increase its fares, making for an average additional A$5-10 charge to most airfares. The airline will also cease its Sydney to Prosperine route in July 2008 and Melbourne to Darwin route in August 2008 in order to cut costs due to the airline's rising fuel bill. Virgin Blue's fuel costs have risen above A$500 million, which is up 21 per cent as compared to the last financial year. The cut backs will also see 4 of the airline's aircraft removed from its fleet and an immediate wage freeze to all management staff. Virgin Blue CEO Brett Godfrey said that the move was part of a A$50 million package of cost savings and capacity cuts. Have an opinion on this story? Post it! Sources "Virgin Blue to increase airfares, cut flight" – Herald Sun, June 13, 2008 Tim Smith "Virgin Blue to Cut Costs, Scale Back Growth on Fuel" – Bloomberg L.P., June 13, 2008 Daniella Miletic "Virgin Blue to raise fares and axe routes" – The Age, June 14, 2008 This page is archived, and is no longer publicly editable. Articles presented on Wikinews reflect the specific time at which they were written and published, and do not attempt to encompass events or knowledge which occur or become known after their publication. Got a correction? Add the template {{editprotected}} to the talk page along with your corrections, and it will be brought to the attention of the administrators. Please note that due to our archival policy, we will not alter or update the content of articles that are archived, but will only accept requests to make grammatical and formatting corrections. Note that some listed sources or external links may no longer be available online due to age. Share this:  Loading... More... Newsflash 3