Virgin Australia expands Sabre agreement
Virgin Australia has renewed and extended its agreement with airline IT company Sabre Technology. The new agreement will see Virgin extend and expand its use of Sabre’s SabreSonic system, which would allow the airline to “progressively implement a wide range of Sabre solutions, including SabreSonic retailing and personalisation solutions,” Sabre said in a statement. “Additionally, the agreement enables the
F-35 environmental impact statement approved
The Department of the Environment has approved the final environmental impact statement for F-35 flying operations from RAAF bases Williamtown and Tindal and over the Salt Ash air weapons range. The EIS approval, published on July 10, is subject to the RAAF meeting 15 conditions, “to minimise impacts to listed threatned species and communities…, wetlands of
Time is running out for rugby fans to enter a Qantas competition to select the special livery be worn by the A380 which will fly the Australian Wallabies to London for the Rugby World Cup later this year. And there is plenty at stake for rugby fans who make their selection from the three designs too – by voting
ANA announces return to Sydney from December
ANA plans to return to Sydney for the first time since 1999 when it commences daily flights from Tokyo Haneda in December. The Japanese carrier said on Thursday it would deploy Boeing 787-9s configured with 48 business, 21 premium economy and 146 economy seats on the Sydney-Tokyo Haneda route, with the inaugural flight to take
A Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 has been sitting at Melbourne Tullamarine with its engines and landing gear covered up, windows blacked out and doors taped for the past 10 weeks. The aircraft, VH-VUM, last flew on May 2, when it was ferried from Christchurch to Melbourne as VA9949. Sister-ship VH-VUN has also spent considerable time on
While it might not have been an Airbus A380 that Real Madrid used to fly Down Under, players and officials from Liverpool Football Club would still have had plenty of room to stretch out on their long flight to Australia. The famous Merseyside club is in Brisbane to play a friendly match against A-League club
