A flight from Perth to Kalgoorlie was pressured to show round on Tuesday morning, inflicting chaos for FIFO staff and different company on board.
The 7am flight VA1853 returned to Perth shortly after take-off because of an “engineering issue”.
The airline mentioned most company have been accommodated on a Virgin Australia flight to Kalgoorlie on Tuesday afternoon however some have been pressured to attend for a flight later within the night.
“We apologise to our guests for any inconvenience,” Virgin Australia mentioned.
It comes as Kalgoorlie-Boulder Airport reported its busiest quarter on document from July to August, placing it properly forward of budgeted income projections for the 2022-23 monetary yr.
A report back to this month’s City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder council assembly mentioned 92,815 passengers handed by way of the airport within the first quarter of the brand new monetary yr, together with a single-month document of 33,318 in August.
The consequence means the airport’s first-quarter income of $4.154 million is greater than $1.218m higher than budgeted.
