Australia’s local airlines cut the number of domestic seats for a fifth straight month in November as capacity discipline remains the order of the day amid soft passenger numbers and sluggish demand for air travel, new figures show. A Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) report says the number of available seats for
If you were a young girl in New Zealand in the 1940s, 1950s or 1970s and had your picture taken on or near an aircraft, Air New Zealand would like to hear from you. The New Zealand flag carrier is searching for three young girls whose images are currently on a series of commemorative stamps
Qantas says it is on track to have five of its 28 Airbus A330 fleet fitted with the new business class at the end of March as it deploys the first internationally reconfigured A330-300 aircraft on the Singapore route this weekend. The city-state is the first international destination to receive what Qantas describes as a
Qatar Airways flight QR 67 has marked the commercial debut of the Airbus A350. The aircraft – registered A7-ALA – took off from Doha Airport at 0810 local time on Thursday, landing at Frankfurt a little under six hours later at 1206. Qatar is the launch customer of the A350 and has 80 of the
Not one of the world’s major hub airports managed a better than 90 per cent on-time performance in calendar 2014, figures from flight data and aviation consultancy OAG show. The best-performing airport with more than 20 million seats per year was Munich, where 89 per cent of all flights departed or arrived within 15 minutes
Ending the domestic capacity war appears to have given local carriers the ability to increase airfares, particularly at the budget end of the market, latest figures show. Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) figures indicate ticket prices for domestic flights across all categories – from the best discount economy fares to business class –
