Category: Airlines

Qantas has reached a confidential out-of-court settlement with former speechwriter Lucinda Holdworth, who had planned to publish a memoir, entitled Fighting Words, that would have detailed behind the scenes discussions and decisions taken during the airline’s controversial 2011 industrial grounding. Qantas took legal action to prevent the book’s publication, arguing it contained confidential information damaging

Virgin Australia has renewed and extended its agreement with airline IT company Sabre Technology. The new agreement will see Virgin extend and expand its use of Sabre’s SabreSonic system, which would allow the airline to “progressively implement a wide range of Sabre solutions, including SabreSonic retailing and personalisation solutions,” Sabre said in a statement. This content is available exclusively

ANA plans to return to Sydney for the first time since 1999 when it commences daily flights from Tokyo Haneda in December. The Japanese carrier said on Thursday it would deploy Boeing 787-9s configured with 48 business, 21 premium economy and 146 economy seats on the Sydney-Tokyo Haneda route, with the inaugural flight to take

A Virgin Australia Boeing 737-800 has been sitting at Melbourne Tullamarine with its engines and landing gear covered up, windows blacked out and doors taped for the past 10 weeks. The aircraft, VH-VUM, last flew on May 2, when it was ferried from Christchurch to Melbourne as VA9949. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation