Mystery surrounds the eventual retirement home of Qantas Boeing 747-400 VH-OJA, with the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) describing social media reports that it will take the aircraft as “rumour mongering”. HARS president Bob De La Hunty says the “rumours” on social media are “all over the place”. “None of it is right,” De La Hunty told
Qantas says yields improved across both its domestic and international operations for a third straight month in November as it maintained capacity discipline at home and benefitted from more benign capacity growth from foreign carriers. On the domestic front, Qantas said on Tuesday yields – an industry term measuring average airfares per passenger – improved
Perth has been named as Emirates’ 34th Airbus A380 destination, with the Dubai-based carrier to add the West Australian capital to its growing network featuring the double decker superjumbo from May 2015. Emirates said it would swap one of its three daily flights to Perth from the Boeing 777-300ER to the A380 from May 1, which
AirAsia X has firmed up an order for 55 Airbus A330neo, or new engine option, aircraft. The Asia-based low-cost carrier has converted a Memorandum of Understanding for 50 of the updated and re-engined Airbus A330 model signed in July, and added a further five frames. Airbus said in a statement on Monday (European time) deliveries
Fiji Airways has bulked up its New Zealand network with new twice weekly flights between Nadi and Wellington to start in June 2015. The new route to the New Zealand capital was due to commence on June 25 2015 and operate on Thursdays and Sundays, Fiji Airways said in a statement on Monday. Wellington will
Qantas has made sweeping changes to its senior executive ranks with the heads of its Domestic and International operations heading for the departure gate as part of a major restructure. Lyell Strambi, who runs Qantas Domestic, and the head of Qantas International Simon Hickey will leave the company once the new structure is in place
