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Qantas has its fourth reconfigured Airbus A330 fitted with new business class seats in service, enabling the Flying Kangaroo to thicken its schedule to Asia with aircraft that feature its latest on-board product. The fourth aircraft, A330-300 VH-QPC, emerged from the Qantas maintenance facility in Brisbane on Sunday, when it went for a two hour
Virgin Australia has retained the title of the nation’s most punctual airline for a fourth straight month. Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) showed Virgin led all airlines in February with an on time departure rate of 91.6 per cent, while its on time arrival rate was also an industry leading
Earlier story has been updated to include comment from Virgin Australia Lithium ion batteries will no longer be able to be sent as cargo on board Qantas and Jetstar aircraft from April 1 after the airline group conducted a new safety assessment. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member
Qantas maintained its position as Australia’s largest international carrier in 2014, although the gap to foreign airlines such as Emirates and Qantas’s low-cost subsidiary Jetstar is narrowing. Figures from the Bureau of Transport, Infrastructure and Regional Economics (BITRE) show Qantas carried 15.4 per cent of the 33.1 million passengers that travelled into and out of Australia
While Qantas has handed the “keys” to VH-OJA over to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS), the record-breaking Boeing 747-400 will be surrounded by a lot of familiar faces as it settles into a new home at Illawarra Airport. That’s because, as Qantas Captain Greg Matthews explains, there are about 400 HARS volunteers that have actually
Investigators have been unable to figure out why a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) unit on board a Qantas Airbus A330-200 failed to warn pilots about a loss of separation incident in September 2013, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says. The incident on September 20 2013 involved VH-EBS operating from Perth to Sydney and VH-EBO
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