Air New Zealand and Virgin Australia have announced plans to operate twice weekly direct flights between Perth and Christchurch between December 2013 and late April 2014. The flights, which will be operated by Air New Zealand 767-300ERs and codeshared by Virgin Australia, will depart Christchurch at 1540 and Perth at 1910 on Wednesdays and Saturdays.
Velocity Frequent Flyer, in partnership with Visa, is launching the ‘Global Wallet’, a prepaid travel money card. Located on one side of the new-look Velocity Frequent Flyer membership card, the Global Wallet will enable members to load money onto their card and store it in multiple foreign currencies as well as Australian dollars; make purchases
QantasLink will transfer its operations to Terminal 3 – the main Qantas domestic terminal – in Sydney during the second half of 2013. The change will greatly improve flight connections and amenity for passengers. A new dedicated lounge for QantasLInk passengers is being constructed at gate 1 in Terminal 3, with work having already commenced.
Emirates SkyCargo is the first carrier to implement Electronic-Air Waybill (e-AWB) shipments under the industry’s recently-ratified multilateral e-AWB standard. Emirates SkyCargo has worked towards the adoption of e-freight with its customers while also ensuring processes are more widely understood and adopted in the industry as a whole. Since 2011 the carrier has put in place
Air New Zealand is set to grow inbound tourism traffic following the NZ government’s decision to invest an incremental NZ$158 million over the next four years to grow tourism to New Zealand. Chief Executive Officer Christopher Luxon said: “This is a significant investment in growing tourism export earnings to New Zealand, which will have very
Qantas has unveiled its new uniforms to be worn by 12,600 staff from early 2014, designed by Paris-based Australian Martin Grant. Thirty-five different garments will be produced, featuring French navy suits and white shirts, and featuring Qantas red “variations” of ruby red and fuchsia pink, recreating, Qantas says, “the idea of the Qantas triangle, across
