iscoverQantas and Emirates have withdrawn their application for interim approval of their proposed alliance but say they will be able to begin planning the tie-up anyway. The two airlines had sought interim approval from the ACCC to begin co-ordinating their activities ahead of the alliance’s planned start in April next year. Unions and rival carriers,
Air New Zealand deputy CEO Norm Thompson will retire next year, joining an executive exodus as CEO Rob Fyfe prepares to leave at the end of 2012. “Few Air New Zealanders have made as significant a contribution to our airline and the nation’s tourism industry as Norm has over the past 44 years,” Mr Fyfe
Qantas has announced it will sell its 50 percent share of StarTrack to Australia Post and in parallel will acquire full ownership of Australian air Express (AaE). Since 2003 Qantas and Australia Post have each owned 50 percent of StarTrack and AaE. In a move that aims to optimise return on the airline’s airfreight investments
Passenger seats have come loose during three American Airlines flights in the last week as the bankrupt carrier continues to flail away on the North American end of its code sharing alliance with Qantas. The airline blamed the problem on improperly installed clamps and said it was inspecting 47 of its Boeing 757 aircraft in
Air New Zealand will increase capacity to San Francisco, Los Angeles and Vancouver as it moves to replace seats lost by Qantas’s exit from New Zealand-California flights earlier this year. Air NZ will increase San Francisco services from five times weekly to daily, Los Angeles services from 12 per week to twice daily and Vancouver
Hawaiian Airlines will launch Honolulu-Auckland services next year aboard Airbus A330 aircraft rather than the Boeing 767s it had planned to use. The carrier claimed the switch was in response to strong advance bookings, though it also coincided with an announcement of promotional sale fares on the route. Hawaiian is due to begin flying to
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