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Qatar Airways has officially joined oneworld, becoming the 13th airline to join the alliance and in the process adding 20 new destinations to the oneworld network. At a ceremony to mark its entry into the alliance, held at Hamad International Airport, which will soon open as Qatar Airways’ new home base, the airline unveiled the

Australia’s major airlines have today both announced major sponsorship deals, with Qantas sponsoring the Tropfest short film festival and Virgin Australia becoming a sponsor of the Greater Western Sydney Giants AFL team. As well as flights, the Tropfest sponsorship will see Qantas sponsor a six-month paid internship for the winner to work in-house at Qantas as part

A Qantas 737 has broken cover at Boeing Field, Seattle wearing the latest in Qantas’s irregular series of “Flying Art” Indigenous paint schemes. New-build 737-838 VH-XZJ is pictured here landing at Boeing Field on October 29. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of

Airbus’s A320 Family has passed the 10,000 order milestone following new orders from US carrier JetBlue. The historic deal sees JetBlue order 15 A321ceo (current engine option) and 20 A321neo (new engine option) aircraft as well as converting eight A320ceo and 10 A320neo aircraft order to eight A321ceo and 10 A321neo orders. This content is available

Boeing says it has improved the fuel efficiency of its 737 MAX by a further one per cent, and is also promising reduced maintenance and support costs. Consequently, Boeing says 737 MAX operators “will realise a 14 per cent fuel-efficiency improvement over today’s most fuel efficient single-aisle aircraft. At longer ranges, the improvement will be

The UK Ministry of Defence has confirmed that BAE Systems’ Taranis Unmanned Combat Air Vehicle (UCAV) demonstrator has conducted initial test flights at the Woomera Test Range in South Australia. The confirmation came from a written statement from the UK MoD to the parliamentary defence select committee inquiry into the current and future use of