Airline News

Japan Airlines again postpones 787 service to Sydney 0
- Airline News, Japan Airlines, Jetstar, Uncategorized
- June 18, 2014
In a press release to the Australian travel industry issued 18 June 2014, Japan Airlines “confirms it will maintain current Boeing 777 with a three class configuration of Business class,Premium Economy class and Economy class service route until further.” This will be the second time Japan Airlines has postponed 787 service from Tokyo Narita to
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Virgin Australia and QANTAS have a twitter exchange 0
- Airline News, QANTAS, Virgin Australia
- June 11, 2014
Virgin Australia’s tweet on 10 June 2014 to announce they had landed in Longreach, Queensland for the first time elicited a rather cheeky tweet from QANTAS. Virgin Australia’s tweet “We landed at Longreach, the birthplace of Australian aviation, for the 1st time today on a flight chartered by the QLD State of Origin team” prompted
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Travel to Europe? QANTAS suggests you go via London 0
- Airline News, Airline Revenue, QANTAS
- June 4, 2014
“As the world’s largest international airline, with a network that perfectly complements our own, Emirates will help us give our customers across Australia a dramatically expanded range of travel options… Together with Emirates, Qantas will provide a unique ‘one stop’ hub.” – Alan Joyce, QANTAS Group CEO, 06 September 2012. Back in 2012 it was
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QANTAS set to close its Brisbane and Melbourne Call Centres 0
- Airline News, QANTAS
- May 28, 2014
QANTAS is set to close down its Melbourne and Brisbane Telephone Sales/Reservations departments. The only remaining Australian based called centre to remain for the carrier will be Hobart. The closure for Melbourne and Brisbane is expected to take place sometime in 2015 and 2016 respectively. QANTAS already has an established off-shore call centre based in
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Cathay Pacific adds Zurich to its network 0
- Airline News, Cathay Pacific
- May 20, 2014
Cathay Pacific further expands its European network with the addition of Zurich, Switzerland. This will be the second new European station after Manchester which was announced earlier on. The carrier will operate non-stop daily four class Boeing 777-300ER from Hong Kong to Zurich effective 29 March 2015. Cathay Pacific Chief Executive Ivan Chu said: “We
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787 declared a 777 variant by EASA for crew licensing 0
- Airline News, Airline Safety, Boeing, British Airways, Uncategorized
- May 20, 2014
On Friday, 16 May 2014, the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) declared the Boeing 787 to be a 777 variant for crew licensing purposes. The EASA Operational Evaluation Board recently met to discuss this 787/777 issue and agreed the 787 can be classified as a variant of the 777. For carriers like British Airways which
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