Qantas plans to add extra services to Japan and the Philippines while scaling back its presence in Beijing and Dallas/Fort Worth as part of changes to its international network. The airline announced on Tuesday it would increase its Sydney-Osaka Kansai schedule to four flights a week from December 7, compared with three times a week
Australia’s two major airlines say they are largely unaffected by emergency airworthiness directives (AD) issued by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) over the weekend mandating inspections of the Boeing 737’s CFM56 engine. Worldwide more than 3,000 CFM International CFM56-7B engines powering Boeing 737-600, -700, -800 and -900
Air New Zealand says it will have to remove two Boeing 787-9s from service for as long as “a number of months” while their Rolls-Royce Trent engines undergo repairs. The Auckland-based Kiwi flag carrier says it has now completed checks on the Trent 1000 ‘Package C’ engines in its fleet following a European Aviation Safety
Scoot chief financial officer Vinod Kannan says he expects the Australian market to be a significant source of passengers for the low-cost carrier’s (LCC) expansion in Europe with upcoming flights to Berlin. The Singapore Airlines-owned Scoot plans to commence Singapore-Berlin flights – which will be one of the longest routes operated by an LCC –
Virgin Australia plans to launch two new trans-Tasman routes and add extra flights into and out of Auckland once its alliance with Air New Zealand ends in October. The two new routes are Sydney-Wellington – currently served only by Air New Zealand and Qantas – and Melbourne-Queenstown, which has nonstop service from Air New Zealand and Jetstar.
Virgin Australia plans to launch two new trans-Tasman routes and add extra flights into and out of Auckland once its alliance with Air New Zealand ends in October. The two new routes are Sydney-Wellington – currently served only by Air New Zealand and Qantas – and Melbourne-Queenstown, which has nonstop service from Air New Zealand and Jetstar.
