Strategic partners Etihad and Virgin Australia have increased the baggage allowance for economy class passengers to 30kg. The new allowances are applicable on flights between Australia, Abu Dhabi and other destinations where the airlines partner excluding North America. Virgin Australia’s chief customer officer, Mark Hassell, said: “The extra seven kilograms is a significant increase for our economy
Air New Zealand and Cathay Pacific have launched a strategic alliance which will see both airlines codeshare on the others’ services on the Auckland-Hong Kong route and offer reciprocal frequent flyer benefits effective January 31 2013. The agreement, which has received New Zealand regulatory approval, is intended not only to optimise performance on the route from
Air New Zealand’s latest safety video has become a global hit on YouTube with 6.2 million viewers so far. Featuring characters from The Hobbit in advance of the release of the first in a new trilogy from award-winning Peter Jackson, the video was watched by more than one million people in the first day of
It is five years since Kuala Lumpur-based AirAsia X began operations to the Gold Coast. Since 2007 the airline, which became the first low cost long haul airline to operate to the Gold Coast, has carried some 94,000 passengers between the cities. Strong collaboration between Gold Coast Airport, the Queensland government and Gold Coast Tourism
When Alexander Kennedy took to the skies as the first Q.A.N.T.A.S. passenger, he exclaimed: “Damn the doubters!” That was 90 years ago today. But as Alan Joyce stood in front of shareholders at today’s annual general meeting in Canberra, he could just as well have uttered those same words. Instead it was one of the
Virgin Australia changed its radio call sign to ‘velocity’ on October 29, replacing the four separate callsigns the airline previously operated under. On the same day the airline changed its ICAO code to VOZ. The changes occurred to create what the airline describes as a “new group code and callsign [to] support the integration of
