Cathay Pacific has given Australians a new one-stop option for trips to London with a return to Gatwick Airport from September 2016. The Hong Kong-based carrier will fly four times a week to London Gatwick with three-class Airbus A350-900s offering 38 business, 28 premium economy and 214 economy class seats. The new flight lifts Cathay’s
Air New Zealand will allow international passengers travelling from Auckland the option of checking in their own bag in what the airline describes as a world first. The self-service bag drop kiosks read biometric data stored on passports using technology similar to the SmartGate passport control gates, with a camera to verify the passenger’s identity. Once the passenger’s
ANA has used its its Star Wars-themed Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner for its inaugural flight from Tokyo/Haneda to Sydney, with flight NH879 touching down at 0932 local time Saturday morning. ANA is returning to Australia for the first time since the late 1990s, and joins Qantas on the Sydney-Haneda route, while Japan Airlines flies to Sydney from Tokyo-Narita. The Star Wars-themed
Air China has touched down in New Zealand for the first time with the arrival of flight CA783 in Auckland on Thursday evening. The Airbus A330-200, B-5932, landed a little after 1830 local time on Thursday following its 12 and a half hour journey from Beijing. The reciprocal, CA784, took off at about 2020 bound
Airlines around the world are expected to collectively generate US$36.3 billion in profits and return their cost of capital in 2016 amid strong demand for passenger travel, lower fuel prices and operational improvements. The 2016 forecast, published by the International Air Transport Association (IATA) on Thursday (European time) in Geneva, represented a net profit margin
Virgin Australia will send its Boeing 737 fleet to the United States for engine maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) as part of a 13-year agreement with alliance partner Delta Air Lines. The MRO work on the 737’s CFM57-7B engines will be conducted by Delta TechOps’ facilities in Atlanta and Minneapolis/St Paul, Virgin said in a
