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When Qantas flight QF96 takes off from Los Angeles bound for Melbourne on Sunday night (local time) the fuel powering Boeing 787-9 VH-ZNA’s two GE Aviation GEnx-1B engines will include about 24,000kg of biofuel. The biofuel has been derived from a type of (non-food) mustard seed called carinata, and the flight is part of Qantas’s
Qantas’s Network Aviation subsidiary will operate Airbus A320 narrowbodies on intra-Western Australia charter services, taking over some flying currently operated by Boeing 737-800s. The two A320s are being sourced from the Jetstar fleet and are expected to start flying with Network Aviation from April, Qantas said in a statement to Australian Aviation. Jetstar’s A320s are
Qantas’s third Boeing 787-9 has arrived in Australia, touching down in Melbourne on Wednesday after its delivery flight from Boeing’s Everett facility just outside Seattle. The aircraft, VH-ZNC, took off from Paine Field as QF6026 just after 1230 local time on Tuesday and landed at Tullamarine just before midnight on Wednesday following its 16-hour journey
Qantas has promoted Olivia Wirth to chief executive of the company’s loyalty business, filling a vacancy created by the departure of Jayne Hrdlicka in mid-December 2017. Wirth, will assume her new role as Qantas Loyalty chief executive on February 12 2018, the company said on Wednesday. The appointment follows the resignation of Jayne Hrdlicka in
Qantas has announced a September 1 start date for its upcoming Melbourne-San Francisco flights with Boeing 787-9s. The new four times weekly non-stop service, which was first announced in December 2017, will operate on Wednesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Flight schedules released by Qantas on Friday showed QF49 departing Melbourne in the evening and arriving
Qantas says a study that ranked it the worst of 20 airlines operating across the Pacific for fuel efficiency did not accurately reflect all its measures to reduce fuel consumption. The International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) report, entitled TransPacific Airline Fuel Efficiency Ranking, compared the fuel efficiency for 20 major airlines operating from the
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