Qantas’s first Boeing 787-9 has undertaken its maiden flight as the clock ticks down towards first delivery. The airline published photos of the test flight on social media on Friday, including on its Twitter, Instagram and Facebook accounts. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the
Travellers wondering how far their dollar, or haul of Qantas frequent flyer points, will take them can have that question answered thanks to a new search function on the airline’s website. Qantas has launched a “Where can I go?” feature that can search for flights based on budget, points, trip duration or class of travel,
Qantas has ferried extra fuel from Sydney to Auckland on a Boeing 747-400 as part of efforts to minimise disruption due to fuel shortages at the airport. Airlines have been battling restricted fuel supplies at Auckland Airport since Sunday, after a pipeline which connects a refinery to the Wiri Oil Services facility near the airport
Qantas’s first Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner has been rolled out from the paintshop ahead of making its first flight later this week. The aircraft, which wears the airline’s new colour scheme and the registration VH-ZNA (but no sign of its Australian-inspired name), emerged from the paintshop at Boeing’s Everett facility early Wednesday morning US time. This
Qantas will operate its proposed three-times-weekly Sydney-Osaka flight as a year-round service from mid-December. Originally, the only direct flights between Australia’s largest and Japan’s second largest cities was going to operate as a seasonal service running from December 17 2017 to March 24 2018. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become
Emirates will offer four daily flights between Sydney and Dubai from March 25 2018 as the airline moves to replace the capacity being withdrawn by alliance partner Qantas. The new service EK417 has been scheduled as an early evening departure from Sydney, arriving in Dubai a little after midnight. The reciprocal EK416 takes off from