Category: Airlines

Air New Zealand and Pratt & Whitney will spend NZ$20 million upgrading Christchurch’s Airport’s engine overhaul facility to support new generation aircraft. The jointly operated V2500 engine shop, established in 2005, overhauls the engines fitted to Air New Zealand’s A320 fleet and other aircraft.  The facility expansion is expected to be complete by the end

Qantas will expand its codeshare relationship with China Eastern Airlines in a bid to attract more corporate customers traveling to Australia’s biggest trading partner. Under the deal, which takes effect from May 1, Qantas will codeshare on China Eastern’s daily Melbourne-Shanghai and thrice weekly Sydney-Nanjing-Beijing services, in addition to the carrier’s domestic Shanghai-Nanjing flights. This

China Southern’s new A330-200 service was scheduled to arrive in Perth Wednesday after touching down in Brisbane on Tuesday. The fast-growing airline said it was introducing the new aircraft as part of an ongoing program to upgrade its product and services to and from Australia. The new A330s feature flatbed seats in business class and

Qantas has sold six times more tickets to Europe under its alliance with Emirates than it did under previous arrangements, a solid return that has fed optimism the carrier’s international operations could return to profitability sooner than expected. “This is the most important deal in Qantas’ 90-plus-year history,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce told journalists prior