Category: Qantas

Qantas has reinstated a codeshare agreement with Air France for flights between Australia and France via Asia that was dropped six years ago when it forged a global alliance with Emirates. Under the new agreement, Qantas will add its QF airline code on Air France’s daily nonstop flights between Paris Charles de Gaulle and Hong

Qantas has dropped plans to expand a codesharing arrangement with Air Niugini on Australia-Port Moresby routes. Australia’s International Air Services Commission (IASC) said in a statement on May 17 Qantas has withdrawn its application to maintain codesharing with Air Niugini on the Brisbane and Sydney to Port Moresby routes and add flights from Cairns and

Note – an updated version of this story was published on May 15 incorporating comments from Canberra Airport. Qantas says one of its Boeing 737-800s was held for ransom in an unprecedented event at Canberra Airport in March 2017 following a diversion due to weather. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

“Profound” is how Captain Richard Champion de Crespigny described the significance of A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton’s return to the Qantas fleet. Qantas’s first Airbus A380 and hence the symbolic flagship of the airline’s fleet, VH-OQA returned safely to Singapore under Captain de Crespigny’s command after an uncontained explosive failure of its number two Rolls-Royce Trent