Category: Qantas

Qantas’s first Boeing 747-400 has arrived back in Australia and is expected to be shortly be on its way to a yet-to-be-identified retirement home. After a delay of more than four hours, VH-OJA departed Los Angeles as QF18 in the early hours of Friday morning at 0045 local time bound for Sydney. This content is

Virgin Australia claimed on-time honours for a second straight month in November, while Rex retained its position as the most punctual regional carrier. Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics showed 89 per cent of Virgin’s domestic flights departed within 15 minutes of schedule in November, ahead of Qantas at 86.7 per

Mystery surrounds the eventual retirement home of Qantas Boeing 747-400 VH-OJA, with the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS) describing social media reports that it will take the aircraft as “rumour mongering”. HARS president Bob De La Hunty says the “rumours” on social media are “all over the place”. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

Qantas says yields improved across both its domestic and international operations for a third straight month in November as it maintained capacity discipline at home and benefitted from more benign capacity growth from foreign carriers. On the domestic front, Qantas said on Tuesday yields – an industry term measuring average airfares per passenger – improved