South Australians will have a new one-stop option to the United States from June 2017 when Fiji Airways begins twice weekly flights between Nadi and Adelaide. The route will be flown using Boeing 737-800s, with the inaugural service due to take off on June 30 2017, Fiji Airways said in a statement on Wednesday. In
Six Chinese carriers that fly to Australia plan to work together to boost the number of tourists travelling between the two countries. On Tuesday, Air China, China Eastern, China Southern, Hainan Airlines, Sichuan Airlines and Xiamen Air signed a memorandum of understanding at the launch of the China-Australia Year of Tourism 2017 program of events
Australia’s competition regulator has knocked back Virgin Australia/Virgin Australia Regional Airlines (VARA) and Alliance Airlines’ proposal to work together in the charter market on joint tendering for corporate fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) contracts, arguing the tie-up would reduce the number of players in the market. In a draft determination published on Monday, the Australian Competition and Consumer
Singapore Airlines (SIA) is adding extra flights to its already-hefty Australian schedule in 2017, with Brisbane, Melbourne and Sydney set to receive more services. Melbourne will increase to 31 flights a week from July 17 2017, from 28 currently, with a fifth daily service to operate on Monday, Friday and Saturday with Airbus A330-300s as a
Residents of Norfolk Island will lose air links to New Zealand from May 2017 when Air New Zealand ends nonstop service to Auckland from the Australian external territory. The airline cited “declining passenger demand from New Zealand” as the reason behind its decision to end the once weekly service between Auckland and Norfolk Island. “The Auckland-Norfolk Island
Nearly 15 years after receiving its first Boeing 737-800, Qantas has racked up one million flights with the narrowbody aircraft across domestic and international routes. The milestone was reached on Thursday afternoon, when Qantas flight QF923, operated by VH-XZI, took off from Cairns bound for Sydney. In the flightdeck of VH-XZI for the milestone flight were
