Category: Qantas

After 16 days of competition, Australia’s Olympic athletes will soon begin the long journey home from Rio de Janeiro on a Qantas Boeing 747-400ER decked out in special livery. The aircraft to bring the team back to Australia, VH-OEJ, left Sydney on Saturday morning operating QF73 bound for San Francisco. The aircraft features a Boxing Kangaroo

Airbus and its parent company Airbus Group have appointed a senior Qantas executive to be its new chief information officer (CIO). Luc Hennekens, who was previously CIO at Qantas, would take up his new role at the airframe on October 1, Airbus said in a statement. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

Qantas says it will install a new Boeing 787-9 flight simulator at its Sydney Mascot base as the airline gears up for the arrival of the next generation aircraft in 2017. The $23 million investment in the new flight simulator, which will be used for new and recurrent training, and other training equipment was part

Qantas has signed a $20 million joint marketing deal with Tourism Australia to help promote inbound tourists from the United States, Asia, the United Kingdom and Europe. The announcement on Wednesday brings to a close a near four-year falling out between the Australian carrier and national tourism body, after Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce in