Category: Qantas

Qantas plans to offer 10 flights a week between Brisbane and Los Angeles from September 1 as its fleet of Boeing 787-9s joins the 747-400s currently operating the route. Under the new schedule, the 787-9 will replace the 747-400 on the daily QF15/16 Brisbane-Los Angeles service. The aircraft will then operate a Los Angeles-New York

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 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