Qantas has agreed to pay a US$26.5 million settlement to resolve its liability under a US class action brought against a number of airlines for their participation in an air freight cartel. “Under the terms of the settlement agreement, Qantas will pay US$26.5 million, which is based on Qantas’s freight revenue to/from the United States,”
Qantas will launch new four times weekly nonstop services between Australia and Dallas/Fort Worth (DFW) from May 16, and at the same time will drop its direct Sydney-San Francisco flights. The new route will see Qantas operate three-class Boeing 747-400ER direct outbound flights from Sydney to DFW as QF7, returning to Sydney via Brisbane as
The first of 14 Airbus A320s Air New Zealand has on order for its domestic fleet has emerged from the paintshop wearing its special ‘Crazy About Rugby’ all black paint scheme to commemorate the 2011 Rugby World Cup, which is being hosted in New Zealand. The A320 recently flew from Airbus’s Toulouse plant where it
Oneworld alliance partners American Airlines (AA) and Japan Airlines (JAL) have launched a joint transpacific business venture, in a bid to consolidate their position in the northern Pacific market. Due to take effect from April 1, the move will see the two carriers align their schedules at Tokyo Narita and Tokyo Haneda and New York,
Qantas today announced it will resume Airbus A380 services between Australia and the US, beginning with QF93 from Melbourne to Los Angeles on January 16. Despite resuming A380 services in late November following the November 3 QF32 mid-air engine failure and subsequent grounding of the type, the airline decided not to return the aircraft to
Regional airline Airnorth is set to double the frequency of its Darwin to Gold Coast via Mount Isa services with the addition of a second weekly flight. Supplementing the current Thursday schedule, the new Wednesday service is due to start on February 16. CEO of Airnorth, Simone Saunders, said the route “has been very popular”
