Another Qantas 747-400 has flown off into retirement with the departure of VH-OJI from Sydney bound for Honolulu and Mojave, California, where it faces an uncertain future in storage. Operating as QF6021 VH-OJI took off from Sydney at – appropriately enough – 7:47am on Saturday, with flight tracking website flightaware.com showing it arriving in Honolulu 8
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the decision to reject an operating licence for Jetstar Hong Kong (JHK) serves the vested interests of those already flying and leaves the travelling public worse off. Hong Kong’s Air Transport Licensing Authority has knocked back Jetstar Hong Kong’s application to fly, leaving the proposed low-cost carrier facing an
A few minutes after midday on Friday, June 26, QF 71 pushed back from the gate at Perth Airport. The flight’s departure – complete with ARFF water cannon salute – signalled the return of regularly scheduled Qantas international flights from the WA capital, with return services flying five days a week between Perth and Singapore.
After more than two years’ of deliberations, Hong Kong’s Air Transport Licensing Authority (ALTA) has formally rejected Jetstar Hong Kong’s application for an operating licence. In a 150-page finding published on Thursday, the authority deemed that Jetstar Hong Kong did not meet the legal requirement of Hong Kong being the planned low cost carrier’s principal place of
Air New Zealand has guided the market to a 60 per cent improvement in financial performance 2014/15 and flagged further earnings growth in the following year. In a trading update on June 24, Air NZ said normalised earnings before taxation was forecast to come in between NZ$520 million and NZ$530 million for the 12 months
Malaysia Airlines (MAS) will drop flights to Brisbane and reduce frequencies other Australian ports from the start of August in the latest round of network changes as part of the airline’s transformation plan. The oneworld alliance member will cease operations to the Queensland capital from August 08, ending a daily service currently operated by Airbus
