The ‘Wellbeing Zone’, accessible to all passengers, will feature “sculpted wall panels” and “integrated stretch handles” as well as a guided on-screen exercise program.
Teri O’Toole, Secretary of the Flight Attendants’ Association of Australia (FAAA) International Division, has accused the Flying Kangaroo of using NZ crews instead of Australian staff on the longer 16-hour leg of the route so it could offer lower rest entitlements.
Ron Twine, 74 and Air New Zealand’s longest-serving flight attendant, joined the Kiwi carrier in 1970 at 21 years old, and will work his last flight on Monday when he flies NZ23 from Vancouver to Auckland. He says over the course of his long career he has made lifelong friends among fellow crew members and even passengers.
Flight VN779 landed in Melbourne at 1pm on Thursday on board the seven-year-old Airbus A350-900 aircraft VN-A889. The service will operate twice per week, and compliments Vietnam Airlines’ existing service to Ho Chi Minh City.
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will resume its Perth to Tokyo (Narita) route on 29 October, flying return services three times per week on Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners and adding almost 75,000 seats back into the market. The route was popular both inbound and outbound until it was suspended in March 2020.
The additional flights, set to begin on 1 July, will cater for the island’s growing tourism industry as well as its scheelite mine, said CEO Alistair Dorward.