Category: Qantas

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

Pilots will be able to access their individual flight data with a few easy swipes thanks to GE Aviation’s new app developed in partnership with Qantas. The FlightPulse app “uses recorded aircraft data and smart analytics to enable pilots to securely access their individual operational efficiency metrics and trends”, GE Aviation said in a statement

Qantas has switched on its codeshare and frequent flyer partnership with Israeli flag carrier El AL that was first announced in February. The arrangement involves Qantas placing its QF airline code on El AL-operated flights from Hong Kong, Bangkok and Johannesburg to Tel Aviv. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become