Air New Zealand will operate up to eight times weekly between Auckland and Vancouver in the peak January period next year. The kiwi carrier announced on Thursday that it is increasing capacity to Vancouver by nearly 20 per cent between January and July next year by moving from seven to eight weekly services during the first
Virgin Australia will introduce a consistent flight schedule for its new five-times-weekly Melbourne-Hong Kong services from October. For the northern winter season of October 30 2017 to March 24 2018 flight VA87 will depart Melbourne at 10:55am for each of the five weekly departures, while the departure time for the return Hong Kong-Melbourne VA86 flight
The oldest aircraft in the mainline Qantas fleet, Boeing 747-438 VH-OJM, has been retired, operating its last revenue flight on Sunday. VH-OJM Gosford operated QF73 from Sydney to San Francisco, the 13 hour flight departing just before 1:15pm on Sunday. After a few hours on the ground the quad-jet then made the short hop southeast to
Regional airline services will return to Port Augusta from September after the South Australian state government awarded Regional Express a route service licence to operate a three times weekly return service from Adelaide. Rex will operate Adelaide-Port Augusta flights with Saab 340s on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from September 11, providing up to 10,000 seats a year.
Dr Alison Roberts has been appointed as the inaugural chief executive officer of new peak industry body Airlines for Australia and New Zealand (A4ANZ). Dr Roberts is currently the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia’s executive director of policy, advocacy and innovation, and starts in her new role on August 1. “Alison has a strong track record
Qantas is to operate a three-times-weekly Sydney-Osaka seasonal service from mid-December, the only direct flights between Australia’s largest and Japan’s second largest cities. The flights will be operated by two-class Airbus A330s to Osaka’s Kansai International Airport between December 14 2017 and March 24 2018, Qantas announced on Thursday. “This December we celebrate 70 years of
