Boeing has formally handed over the first 787-10 to launch customer Singapore Airlines (SIA). The official ribbon-cutting took place at Boeing’s North Charleston final assembly line on Monday evening (US time), with the event attended by SIA chief executive Goh Choon Phong, Boeing Commercial Airplanes chief executive Kevin McAllister and Rolls-Royce director for customers and
China Airlines’s Australian network has become an all-Airbus A350-900 operation following the upgauging of its Brisbane and Melbourne services to the next generation widebody. Flight CI57, operated by A350-900 B-18909, landed at Tullamarine a little after 1200 on Monday, following a nine and a half hour journey from Taipei. The aircraft received an Airservices Aviation
History made as Qantas Flight 9 touches down in London
When Qantas Flight 9 touched down in London at the end of its historic nonstop flight from Perth a little after 5am local time on Sunday, the remarkable had been made to seem routine. For the first time, Australia and the UK were linked by a direct nonstop air service. For the 229 passengers on
A day ahead of the launch of nonstop flights between Perth and London with the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, Qantas’s head of customer product says the aircraft is setting a new benchmark for customer satisfaction. Qantas has so far taken delivery of four 787-9s, with the aircraft operating a daily service between Melbourne and Los Angeles
Qantas is a day away from claiming second place on the list of world’s longest passenger flight measured by distance. When the Australian carrier’s 7,829nm London Heathrow-Perth nonstop service with Boeing 787-9 equipment takes off on Saturday March 24, it will trail only Qatar Airways’ 7,848nm Auckland-Doha flight. The QF9/10 rotation, which links the continents
Virgin Australia advanced pilot cadets graduate
Virgin Australia’s latest batch of pilot cadets has graduated and will shortly begin flying the airline’s ATR 72 turboprops and Boeing 777-300ER widebodies as First and Second Officers. The airline’s advanced pilot cadets completed the 22-week course run by Flight Training Adelaide in South Australia. Meanwhile, those completing the ab initio course, which is designed
