THE RORT · DOSSIER · VIRGIN AUSTRALIASTATUS · ONGOING
The ACCC: named together in 5 articlesThe ACCCQantas: named together in 5 articlesQantasBarnaby Joyce: named together in 4 articlesBarnaby JoyceAlan Joyce: named together in 3 articlesAlan JoyceDuopoly & Concentration: named together in 3 articlesDuopoly & Concentrati…Anthony Albanese: named together in 2 articlesAnthony AlbaneseThe Chairman's Lounge: named together in 2 articlesThe Chairman's LoungeACCI: named together in 1 articleACCIAmerican Express: named together in 1 articleAmerican ExpressBridget McKenzie: named together in 1 articleBridget McKenzieNews Corp: named together in 1 articleNews CorpNine: named together in 1 articleNineSydney Airport: named together in 1 articleSydney AirportWoolworths: named together in 1 article
DOSSIER / ACTORCOMPANY · AVIATION

Virgin Australia

Status Ongoing

The duopoly's junior partner and repeated near-casualty, kept alive just enough to hold the market at two.

Last on record
2026-04-03
Named in
5 articles
Across
1 case

Named in 5 articles across 1 case 14 connections: companies 6, lobbies 2, mechanisms 1, regulators and bodies 1, people 4

Key figure on file
98.3%
Qantas Group and Virgin Australia together carried 98.3 per cent of all domestic passengers in March 2025. [10] Bonza's collapse in April 2024 marked… ACCC, May 2025 report (March 2025 data); Switzer Daily
Corporate income tax paid · 2023-24
A$0
A$576m of taxable income in Australia, reduced to nil by carried-forward losses: no income tax payable. ATO Corporate Tax Transparency 2023-24.
5
Articles naming it
1
Cases it recurs across
14
Linked in the graph
3
Figures on file

Fig. 01 / Where this name appears

The Airline Rort98.3%Qantas Group and Virgin Australia together carried 98.3 per cent of all domestic passengers in March 2025. [10] Bonza's collapse in April 2024 mark…5 articles →
Fig. 01Source: article scan · every article naming itAs of 2026‑04‑03Auto-assembled

Fig. 02 / On the record

  1. 98.3%Qantas Group and Virgin Australia together carried 98.3 per cent of all domestic passengers in March 2025. [10] Bonza's collapse in April 2024 marked the second failed attempt at a third domestic player in a decade. [11]Source: ACCC, May 2025 report (March 2025 data); Switzer DailyThe duopoly →
  2. 2.7% below 2019Domestic seat capacity in Q1 2025. Industry load factor: 80%+. In the first half of 2025-26 the Qantas Group reported record underlying earnings [1] and Virgin Australia underlying EBIT of A$490 million [1]; the Qantas Group's full-year 2025-26 underlying EBIT then fell 11.0 per cent [27]. The planes are full, fares are high, and neither airline is in a hurry to add more seats into a market they dominate.Source: Aviation Week / ACCC / Qantas Group [1][2][3][10][27]The fare →
Fig. 02Source: figures on file for this name, each tied to the article it came fromAs of 2026‑04‑03Auto-assembled

How we know

The sources of the 5 articles that name Virgin Australia, by the tier the desk declared. A source supports its article, not necessarily a claim about Virgin Australia.

Evidence strength · 82 sources across 5 articles
  • Primary 21
  • Official 6
  • Masthead 13
  • Trade 17
  • Aggregator 9
  • Unusable 2
  • 14 not yet graded
Primary
the document itself: legislation, a court record, a filing, a regulator’s own publication
Official
the organisation’s own statement about itself
Masthead
a news organisation with a corrections policy, reporting the primary document
Trade
specialist or trade press
Aggregator
republishes others’ work
Unusable
its own sourcing cannot be established
How sources are graded

4 of 5 articles are graded on every headline finding. How findings are graded

Fig. 03 / Named together

Virgin AustraliaQantas: named together in 5 articlesQantas5The ACCC: named together in 5 articlesThe ACCC5Barnaby Joyce: named together in 4 articlesBarnaby Joyce4Alan Joyce: named together in 3 articlesAlan Joyce3Duopoly & Concentration: named together in 3 articlesDuopoly & Concentration3Anthony Albanese: named together in 2 articlesAnthony Albanese2The Chairman's Lounge: named together in 2 articlesThe Chairman's Lounge2ACCI: named together in 1 articleACCI1American Express: named together in 1 articleAmerican Express1Bridget McKenzie: named together in 1 articleBridget McKenzie1News Corp: named together in 1 articleNews Corp1Nine: named together in 1 articleNine1
The 12 names most often in the same articles as Virgin Australia. A line's weight, and the number by each name, is how many articles name both. Grey chords join the neighbours most often named together themselves (two articles or more). Circles are people and organisations, squares are mechanisms. Named together is all this shows: it is not a finding about what the relationship is.
Fig. 03Source: article scan · articles naming bothAs of 2026‑04‑03Auto-assembled

How this page is assembled. The name, status and role are the desk's entity record. The article list, case counts, connections and the figures under On the record are read by script from the published articles that name Virgin Australia: the desk's key figures where it declared them, otherwise figures harvested from those articles. A connection is a name that appears in the same articles; it is not a finding about the relationship. Under How we know, the sources are those articles' references, counted once each and tiered only where the desk declared a tier; a grade beside an article is its weakest headline finding, shown only where every headline finding is graded. The page is rebuilt when an article is published or changed.

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