Australia’s major airlines have today both announced major sponsorship deals, with Qantas sponsoring the Tropfest short film festival and Virgin Australia becoming a sponsor of the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL team. As well as flights, the Tropfest sponsorship will see Qantas sponsor a six-month paid internship for the winner to work in-house at Qantas as part
A Qantas 737 has broken cover at Boeing Field, Seattle wearing the latest in Qantas’s irregular series of “Flying Art” Indigenous paint schemes. New-build 737-838 VH-XZJ is pictured here landing at Boeing Field on October 29. Named Mendoowoorrji, the scheme is “from a painting which captures the heart of the Kimberley region”, according to Qantas. A special
China Southern Airlines has become the first airline to operate scheduled 787 services to New Zealand following the arrival in airline’s newly-delivered aircraft in Auckland on October 28. Operating a daily service, the 787 replaces the airline’s existing A330-operated schedule and increases annual seat capacity by around five per cent. The daily flights will be increased
China Southern’s first Airbus A380 service to Sydney touched down this morning. The 502-seat A380 replaces A330s on China Southern’s daily CZ325/326 services between Sydney and Guangzhou. China Southern is now the the fourth airline to fly the A380 to Sydney, along with Qantas, Singapore Airlines and Emirates, making Sydney Airport the world’s fifth busiest A380 airport
Sydney Swans footballer Adam Goodes has become Qantas’s latest ‘ambassador’. CEO Alan Joyce said that Qantas has a commitment to promoting cultural diversity and raising the profile of Indigenous culture. “We are honoured that Adam, as one of the most respected and prominent Indigenous Australians, will now be working with us towards these goals,” he said.
Airnorth is adding more services on the Darwin-Townsville route, with a new Sunday service added to its existing four-weekly schedule from June 1. “We are overwhelmed by the level of support we have received for this route,” said Michael Bridge, Airnorth’s CEO. “This support has allowed us to more than double our flights from Darwin
