Qantas’s fourth Boeing 787-9 has emerged from the paintshop and completed its first test flights as the clock counts down to the arrival of the aircraft with an Indigenous-inspired livery at a special welcome ceremony at Alice Springs in early March. The aircraft, VH-ZND, broke cover at Boeing’s Everett facility on Thursday morning (US time)
Australia’s competition watchdog has given the green light to Emirates and Qantas continuing their global alliance for a further five years despite some competition concerns on one trans-Tasman route. The draft determination from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said the two carriers’ partnership covering destinations in Asia, Europe, Oceania, the Middle East and
Singapore Airlines (SIA) has sounded a note of caution about the recent rise in fuel prices after posting a healthy rise in net profit for the nine months to December 31 2017 amid stronger passenger and cargo flown revenue. Net profit for the period came in at S$711 million, SIA said in a regulatory filing
Alliance Airlines has forged a multi-year agreement to provide air charter flights in Australia for Japanese travel company JTB. The partnership was officially announced in Tokyo with Alliance Airlines chief executive Lee Schofield and JTB World Vacations president Toru Ikuta on Wednesday. The first flights under the deal is due to take place in April,
Qantas has revealed images of its fourth 787-9 in the paintshop at Boeing’s Everett facility just outside Seattle featuring a special Indigenous livery. Qantas says the new livery is based on a work by the late Northern Territory artist and senior Anmatyerre woman, Emily Kame Kngwarreye. Her 1991 painting, Yam Dreaming has been adapted for the aircraft
Australia-based Permagard Aviation has secured a partner in the fast-growing Asian aviation market through a partnership with aviation consultancy and services company RISE Aerospace. Under a Memorandum of Understand (MoU) signed at the Singapore Airshow, RISE Aerospace will offer Permagard Aviation’s antimicrobial shield for aircraft interiors and protective exterior coating for aircraft exteriors. The deal