Skywest Airlines and Discover West Holidays have entered into a new tourism partnership, with the announcement of the rebadged Skywest Holidays. The partnership aims to boost tourism to destinations across the Skywest’s growing WA network through Discover West’s marketing resources and expertise. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member
Qantas has announced plans to cut domestic and international capacity growth, suspensions and cuts to some Japan and NZ services, the early retirement of two 767s, and plans to reduce management staff numbers in response to high jet fuel prices and the recent natural disasters in Japan, New Zealand and Queensland. “We need to act
Joint venture partners Qantas and Australia Post have appointed current Qantas Freight head Stephen Cleary as new CEO for their freight business, Star Track Express. Cleary, who has more than 20 years’ experience in the commercial freight, distribution and logistics industries, will begin his new role from May 1. Cleary has been with Qantas for
Strategic Airlines has contracted Emirates Group IT services business Mercator to provide its new reservations and sales distribution IT platform, to be deployed later this year. The airline will use Mercator Asia’s Avantik system, which covers reservations, GDS connectivity, internet bookings, online check-in, departure control and frequent flyer capabilities. This content is available exclusively to
A Qantas Airbus A330 flying from Manila to Sydney was forced to make an emergency landing in Cairns yesterday afternoon after suffering a cockpit fire. A330-200 VH-EBL was approximately 365nm northwest of Cairns when a windscreen window heating circuit began arcing. The crew donned oxygen masks and extinguished the resultant flames from the left hand
Qantas has announced that it will again increase domestic, regional and Tasman air fares in “response to high oil and jet fuel prices”. The airline will increase fares by up to $10 per sector on domestic and regional flights for tickets issued on or after March 31. Increases of up to eight per cent will