iscoverWhen Qantas Flight 9 touched down in London at the end of its historic nonstop flight from Perth a little after 5am local time on Sunday, the remarkable had been made to seem routine. For the first time, Australia and the UK were linked by a direct nonstop air service. For the 229 passengers on
History was achieved on Saturday, March 24, 2018, when Qantas flight QF9 took off from Perth Airport bound for London Heathrow. Some 71 years after the Kangaroo Route was first established, the continents of Australia and Europe are now linked by regularly scheduled nonstop passenger flights. QF9, operated by Boeing 787-9 VH-ZND, was carrying about
A day ahead of the launch of nonstop flights between Perth and London with the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner, Qantas’s head of customer product says the aircraft is setting a new benchmark for customer satisfaction. Qantas has so far taken delivery of four 787-9s, with the aircraft operating a daily service between Melbourne and Los Angeles
Qantas is a day away from claiming second place on the list of world’s longest passenger flight measured by distance. When the Australian carrier’s 7,829nm London Heathrow-Perth nonstop service with Boeing 787-9 equipment takes off on Saturday March 24, it will trail only Qatar Airways’ 7,848nm Auckland-Doha flight. The QF9/10 rotation, which links the continents
Welcome to our latest “Throwback Thursday” feature article from a past edition of Australian Aviation. Here, this August 2017 issue story looked at Qantas’s work with the University of Sydney to help reduce jetlag on its Perth-London Heathrow nonstop flights with the Boeing 787-9, which commence on Saturday. Anyone who has ever made the journey
Jetstar will operate the Boeing 787-8 alongside the forthcoming Airbus A321neoLR on some Australia-Bali routes, the chief executive of the Qantas-owned low-cost carrier says. Eighteen A321neoLR aircraft are due to join the Jetstar Australia and New Zealand fleet from mid-2020 to 2022 after Qantas announced in February it had restructured its long-standing Airbus A320neo order to
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