Dozens of domestic flights were cancelled and other flights in and out of Sydney Airport experienced significant delays over the weekend as strong winds and heavy rains brought by the so-called ‘East Coast Low’ reduced the airport to single runway operations for significant periods on Saturday and Sunday. ⚠️ Good morning Sydney. As wild weather continues,
Air New Zealand’s inaugural flight from Auckland to Ho Chi Minh City touched down at Vietnam’s largest city on Saturday evening. Ho Chi Minh becomes the airline’s 30th international destination, and joins Houston, Buenos Aires and Beijing as recent additions to the Kiwi flag carrier’s international route map. “This new service is a further expansion of our
Emirates president Sir Tim Clark says his airline is currently more focused on adding extra capacity on its existing Oceania routes operated in conjunction with alliance partner Qantas rather than establishing new services to secondary cities. The Dubai-headquartered carrier serves five Australia points with its own metal – Adelaide, Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney –
Indonesia AirAsia X will cease flights to both Melbourne and Sydney from Denpasar, Bali on September 1. The airline explained in a statement that: “The suspension of these services is part of a network restructuring aimed at improving operational efficiencies at Indonesia AirAsia X.” Given Indonesia AirAsia X’s only other international destination is currently Jeddah, Saudi Arabia,
Air Canada’s first daily flight to Brisbane from Vancouver touched down on Friday morning, marking the first nonstop scheduled service between Canada and Brisbane. The inaugural flight AC35 was operated by Boeing 787-8 C-GHPV, and touched down at 7:07am. The 251-seat 787 made the trans-Pacific journey in 14 hours 14 minutes, having departed Vancouver at 11:45 Wednesday
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the airline group’s strong Asian network and high-calibre partners in the region leave it in a strong position to compete against anything the recently announced Virgin Australia/HNA Group tie-up comes up with. Virgin Australia has applied for an allocation of capacity to serve Beijing and Hong Kong with its
