Category: Qantas

Air services provider dnata has agreed to purchase Qantas’s catering businesses for an undisclosed sum. The transaction, announced on Wednesday, involved Qantas selling its Q Catering (based in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney) and frozen food maker Snap Fresh (based at Logan City in Queensland) to the Emirates Group-subsidiary dnata. This content is available exclusively

The first of eight Qantas Airbus A380s being repainted in the airline’s new livery by Emirates Engineering has arrived back in Australia. Operating as QF6012, the Qantas A380 VH-OQF landed in Sydney a little after 0700 on Wednesday morning, following its 14-hour journey from Dubai. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login

Project Sunrise, Qantas’s ambitious plan to introduce a “super long-haul” aircraft into service from 2022 capable of flying nonstop from the east coast of Australia to London and New York, could provide an opportunity for new thinking in passenger amenity, the airline says. Among the ideas being considered for the new aircraft type, either the

So what is it like spending 17 hours in an aircraft while flying some 8,000nm? Australian Aviation was among the 140-odd passengers in the economy cabin of Qantas’s inaugural QF9 service between Perth and London Heathrow, operated by Boeing 787-9 VH-ZND. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To