Qantas has dropped plans to expand a codesharing arrangement with Air Niugini on Australia-Port Moresby routes. Australia’s International Air Services Commission (IASC) said in a statement on May 17 Qantas has withdrawn its application to maintain codesharing with Air Niugini on the Brisbane and Sydney to Port Moresby routes and add flights from Cairns and
The first Airbus A330neo planned to be delivered to a customer has completed its first flight. The A330-900neo wears the colours of launch customer TAP Air Portugal, and departed Airbus’s home airport of Toulouse for its 4hr 32min maiden flight on Tuesday. Airbus says MSN1819 is the first aircraft fitted with the Airspace cabin, and is
Canberra Airport managing director Stephen Byron has denied claims his airport held a Qantas Boeing 737-800 for ransom following a diversion in March 2017. The claim, made by Qantas on Monday, relates to a flight en route from Auckland to Sydney that landed at Canberra Airport due to bad weather. A senior Qantas spokesperson said
Note – an updated version of this story was published on May 15 incorporating comments from Canberra Airport. Qantas says one of its Boeing 737-800s was held for ransom in an unprecedented event at Canberra Airport in March 2017 following a diversion due to weather. It is understood Canberra Airport prevented the aircraft – carrying
Standing in the expansive Dassault Falcon hangar at an unusually quiet Paris Le Bourget Airport in late February, the sense of national pride among the assembled French aeronautical world was palpable as the airframer unveiled its latest jet, the Falcon 6X. That pride comes not just from the fact that 6X meets a large-cabin, long-range need
“Profound” is how Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny described the significance of A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton’s return to the Qantas fleet. Qantas’s first Airbus A380 and hence the symbolic flagship of the airline’s fleet, VH-OQA returned safely to Singapore under Captain de Crespigny’s command after an uncontained explosive failure of its number two Rolls-Royce Trent
