Virgin Australia is set to become the official domestic airline of V8 Supercars. As part of a partnership announced Monday, Virgin will transport V8 Supercar staff and the majority of teams to the 15 Australian supercar events as well as the one event in New Zealand. The airline said it would offer fans a range
The union representing Qantas pilots has attacked as “bizarre and worrying” claims by CEO Alan Joyce that grounding the airline’s fleet during last year’s labour dispute was “positive for the brand.” The decision to ground the fleet without warning for three days in late October left tens of thousands of passengers stranded and cost the
Steering problems forced a Qantas A380 to twice abandon takeoff from London Heathrow Airport this weekend. Flight QF10 was scheduled to depart London at 9:30 pm local time on Saturday but had to return to a maintenance bay twice after pilots identified a problem while taxiing. Accounts posted by passengers on Twitter said the superjumbo
Etihad Airways ended 2011 in the black for the first time in its eight year history, posting profits of US$14 million on the back of a 36 per cent increase in revenues to US$4.1 billion, the Abu Dhabi based carrier reported. The results exceeded a break-even forecast for the year. In 2007, Etihad set a
Qantas says a trial run of its wi-fi based Q Streaming inflight entertainment system has met with an extremely positive response as the carrier finalises plans to deploy the system across its wider fleet. Developed by Lufthansa Systems, the wireless IFE gives passengers access to more than 200 hours of programming streamed directly to iPads
Incorrect weight data entered into a flight computer led to the near stall of a QantasLink 717 flight near Kalgoorlie in late 2010, an ATSB investigation has concluded. The investigation found the flightcrew mistakenly entered the Boeing 717-200’s operating weight instead of the zero fuel weight into the aircraft’s flight management system (FMS). That led
