iscoverA 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
Highly-respected aviation journalist Jon Ostrower has published a first image of a Boeing concept design for its proposed New Middle-Market Airplane (NMA). The image published on Ostrower’s blog shows a concept design that features a Boeing 767-style nose, 787-style wing and main cabin windows and a 737 MAX-style tail cone. This content is available exclusively
Today’s second ‘Throwback Thursday’ feature article from a past edition of Australian Aviation is this November 2010 issue analysis of Qantas’s fleet requirements. “Getting fleet strategy right is essential to airline success, and we have always been prepared to go straight to the aviation forefront,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said in a recent speech. This
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