New Qantas partner Emirates is launching an additional A380 service to Sydney. Emirates said it planned to upgrade one of its daily Boeing 777 service between Sydney and Dubai to an A380 from June 1, adding about 1900 seats per week on the route. The service will depart Sydney as EK415 at 9:30 pm and
The aviation industry has lost an iconic figure in the death of James Strong, who firstly oversaw the transformation of TAA into Australian Airlines, and then was head of Qantas for its merger with Australian, and subsequent privatisation. “James Strong passed away peacefully in Sydney on the 3rd March 2013 from lung complications following surgery,”
Jetstar Japan has formed agreements with Japan Airlines and Qantas that extend its international reach and provide improved on-carriage for customers of the respective airlines. Jetstar Japan and JAL have entered a codeshare agreement enabling JAL customers flying internationally to Tokyo (Narita), Osaka (Kansai) and Nagoya (Chubu) to book onward travel on Jetstar Japan’s growing
Air New Zealand has used an annoucement of a 300 per cent surge in pretax profits for the first half of the current financial year to reveal plans to lease two additional Boeing 777-300ERs for introduction into service in 2014. The airline’s normalised profit before tax for the half was NZ$139 million, up from NZ$33
AWAS announced today it has delivered the last two of three new Airbus A320s to the Qantas Group for deployment with its Jetstar Asia and Jetstar Australia operating units. The aircraft are from AWAS’s existing new order pipeline with Airbus. AWAS now has a total of eight aircraft on lease with the Qantas Group overall.
Virgin Australia has announced it will operate ATR 72 turboprop flights between Brisbane and Moranbah from April 2 and Brisbane and Bundaberg from May 4. To Moranbah, Virgin Australia will initially operate two daily return flights on weekdays, increasing to three daily return flights from April 15, while weekends will see one daily return flight
