Industry magazine The Air Current is reporting that the investigation of the LATAM Boeing 787 flight between Sydney and Auckland, which experienced a mid-air dive that injured 50 passengers and crew, will centre around the movement of a flight deck seat. Since the incident on the flight between Auckland and...

The pilot of a LATAM flight between Sydney and Auckland told passengers that the plane “dropped out of the sky”. About two hours into the flight, all the cockpit gauges went blank. Fifty unsecured passengers and crew collided with the ceiling, damaging panels. Others dropped heavily, sustaining many minor injuries....

If you have never travelled on Fiji Airways, you should. That Pacific Islander hospitality is hard to beat. In 2018, Fiji Airways was the first and only OneWorld Connect partner. The concept didn’t really seem to catch on. Now, thanks to ET, we know that OneWorld will effectively abandon the...

Oh dear, it looks like Virgin Australi has started the small-animals-in-cabins pet wars for Australian Airlines by announcing that it intends to be the first airline to offer pets onboard transport. I think today must be a slow news day, or Virgin Australia wants to capitalise on the current bad...

Brisbane will now host direct flights with Qantas on short-haul internationl flights to the capital of New Zealand, Wellington, and to Apia, the capital of pacific independent state, Samoa. Flights will commence late in October this year, operating larger aircraft more frequently to these destinations. Wellington, New Zealand The Wellington/Brisbane...

Turkish Airlines light TK168, which departed Istanbul on Friday, is scheduled to land at Tullamarine Airport tonight at 8:40 pm. You can read about the route in more detail in a previous post. This will be the airline’s first flight to Australia. Unfortunately, this will be conducted using a less...

Jetstar chose designer Genevieve Smart of Ginger and Smart, to work with its staff on designing the new uniform range. The new clobber will be worn by some 5,000 of the airline’s customer-facing staff in Australia, and offshoots in New Zealand, Japan and Singapore. Expect to see the uniforms from...

This project has been talked about for a very loooong time. Since 2017 at least. Back in 2019, Qantas ran nearly empty flights to New York and London as a proof of concept. They even ran a health and wellness research project linked to the ultra-long-haul flights back in October...

Qantas is set to make ‘improvements’ to the frequent flyer scheme. This includes a new ‘flight reward product’ to meet the need for more reward seat availability at popular times of travel. This product will be available to book closer to the departure date. ET is reporting on a briefing...

As part of their most recent financial reporting, Qantas has released information about a number of digital improvements. Everything from international WiFi and improvements to its phone app, to automated refunds that patrons can receive without even asking. Well, that’s a turnaround. What happened to the ‘we can’t do that...

Along with the financials, showing a drop in profitability for the half year of 13% from the record post-pandemic profits of last year, Qantas has revealed the interior of its new A220 jets. No real surprises here. New A220 for QantasLink The first two of a total of 29 Airbus...

Qantas has announced today, that Richard Goyder will be replaced as Board Chair by John Mullen at the October AGM. He is currently the chair of Treasury Wine Estates and Brambles. He has already said he will need to slim down his responsibilities so he can give Qantas appropriate attention....