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Flights will operate every day except Monday and Saturday as an extension to the Taiwanese carrier’s existing A350-900 service between Taipei and Melbourne over the summer period and are expected to add more than 3,000 weekly seats on the Melbourne–Auckland corridor.
The 737-800, VH-YQR, was operating a flight from Brisbane to Melbourne on 6 September last year when a member of the cabin crew requested to enter the flight deck as the plane reached cruising altitude near Ballina.
In a significant intervention, the union appeared to link its support for the airline’s deal with Qatar Airways to the possible appointment of Paul Jones, who was previously a Qantas executive involved in the airline’s illegal sacking of ground workers.
Speaking to Adelaide’s FiveAA radio, Transport Minister Catherine King agreed that Qantas “should do better” in the city, which currently hosts nine other international carriers, and indicated she would be willing to press the Flying Kangaroo to bring back international flights.
The maiden flight TK174 touched down at 6:18pm on Friday aboard the 777-300ER TC-LJK, having flown from Istanbul via Kuala Lumpur.
VH-OGA, “Great Ocean Road”, has seen its forward and rear fuselage, wings, and tail assembled among other major airframe components at Airbus’ facility in Hamburg, Germany. It is the first of 28 firm orders for the A321XLR, which will replace Qantas’ 737-800 fleet over the next decade.
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