History was achieved on Saturday, March 24, 2018, when Qantas flight QF9 took off from Perth Airport bound for London Heathrow. Some 71 years after the Kangaroo Route was first established, the continents of Australia and Europe are now linked by regularly scheduled nonstop passenger flights. QF9, operated by Boeing 787-9 VH-ZND, was carrying about
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’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
Welcome to our latest “Throwback Thursday” feature article from a past edition of Australian Aviation. Here, this August 2017 issue story looked at Qantas’s work with the University of Sydney to help reduce jetlag on its Perth-London Heathrow nonstop flights with the Boeing 787-9, which commence on Saturday. Anyone who has ever made the journey
In Jules Verne’s classic novel 19th century novel, protagonist Phileas Fogg bets 20,000 pounds on being able to go, as the title of the book states, “Around the World in 80 Days“. Since its publication in 1873 (and subsequent translation into English) the work of fiction has spawned multiple real-life attempts. Some, such as Michael
