iscoverQantas has become a launch customer for Airbus’s iPad cockpit applications. The electronic flight bag (EFB) will be used aboard all Airbus aircraft in the Qantas fleet. The system will enable flight crew to consolidate paper manuals into electronic form and to compute aircraft performance calculations. Qantas and Airbus have been collaborating on EFB design
Hawaiian Airlines has operated its first nonstop flight between Honolulu and Brisbane. In so doing the airline has become the only US carrier to serve the Queensland capital. The first of the thrice-weekly flights using a 767-300ER touched down in Brisbane today, returning to Honolulu after a launch ceremony including hula dancing and a traditional Hawaiian
Proving where there is smoke there is fire, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce today announced his airline was withdrawing its sponsorship of Tourism Australia, citing a conflict of interest where Tourism Australia chairman – and former Qantas CEO – Geoff Dixon is involved in a new takeover bid for the airline. “Many of you have been
Regional Express Holdings (REX) has downgraded its profit guidance for the current financial year to between 25 and 35 per cent lower than its 2011/12 $35.1 million profit before tax. Its previous guidance was between 15 and 25 per cent lower. REX chief operating officer Garry Filmer said: “As foreshadowed in our earlier warnings, the
Tiger Airways has announced four-weekly services between Sydney and Coffs Harbour starting February 15, becoming the first intra-state service operated by the airline. In total 1,400 seats a week will be flown between the centres, which will be boosted in March with the addition of a fifth weekly service. This content is available exclusively to
The arrival of Qantas’s latest Airbus A330-200, VH-EBV Kangaroo Island has provided the platform for the airline to announce that from May it will deploy A330s on all weekday flights between Sydney, Melbourne and Perth. The move is in response to a growing business market, with Qantas domestic CEO Lyell Strambi saying the airline has
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