Category: Qantas

The capacity war between Qantas and Virgin Australia may have cooled, but things are heating up in the two airlines’ attempts to lure business travellers on the east-west trek. Just a week after Virgin launched its new “The Business” business class seat on board its Airbus A330-200s that fly between Perth and Australia’s east coast

As more details emerge about Qantas’s selection of Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners for its future fleet, the passenger experience implications are fascinating, even given the background of the continued focus on costs and profitability within Qantas International. “We are halfway through the biggest and fastest transformation in our history. Without that transformation, we would not be

Boeing and engine supplier GE Aviation have welcomed Qantas’s purchase of eight 787-9 Dreamliners. The GEnx-1B engine will power Qantas’s eight 787-9s, the first of which will begin arriving from the 2017/18 financial year. Manufacturer GE Aviation says the GEnx-1B has so far clocked up more than 1.7 million flight hours and 300,000 cycles since entering

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the Boeing 787-9 Dreamliner will allow the airline to open up new direct services and boost some existing routes to daily. The company announced on Thursday it would take delivery of eight 787-9s, with the first four to join the Qantas fleet in the 2017/18 financial year and the