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Qantas to launch Sydney-Osaka flights
Qantas will launch year-round flights between Sydney and Osaka's Kansai Airport, extending the previously-announced three month...
Oneworld CEO sees "new direction"
Oneworld CEO Rob Gurney is counting down to the alliance's 20 year anniversary in early 2019, and reflects that “eve...
Malaysia Airlines orders Boeing 787, also Boeing 7
Malaysia Airlines has agreed to buy eight Boeing 787-9 Dreamliners and eight Boeing 737 MAX 8 jets as the Oneworld airline look...
Emirates adds fourth daily Sydney-Dubai flight
Emirates will fly a fourth daily service between Sydney and Dubai from 25 March 2018 – and like its three siblings, the servic...
Etihad drops business class PJs
Inflight PJs have joined the cutlist on Etihad Airways, with the Gulf airline no longer handing out free sleep suits to busines...
Emirates wavers on A380 deal
Emirates, the world’s biggest long-haul airline, is holding out for assurances about the future of Airbus' A380 program b...
First class facelift for Qantas A380s
Qantas' Airbus A380 first class suites are part of a multi-million dollar makeover for the superjumbos which will also see the...
China Eastern: daily Brisbane-Shanghai flights
IN BRIEF | Qantas partner China Eastern will upgrade its four-times-weekly Brisbane-Shanghai flights to a daily service from No...
Virgin goes daily on MEL-HKG
Virgin Australia's flights between Melbourne and Hong Kong are ticking up to a daily frequency, giving business travellers more...
Your say: business class amenity kits
TALKING POINT | Almost every airline hands out amenity kits to business class passengers, but the more you travel the more sele...
United set for US$14bn Airbus A350 order
Airbus is on the verge of securing an order for 45 of its A350-900 wide-body jetliners, a critical win after a run of deferrals...
New globe-spanning jets from Airbus, Boeing
Airbus and Boeing have thrown their hats into the ring to produce ultra-long range jets capable of non-stop flights from Austra...
BA launches Premium Transfer Drive service
British Airways is now providing a chauffeur drive service between flights at London's Heathrow Airport, with premium pass...
CX expands European network
Cathay Pacific will add three new European destinations to its network in 2018, with the airline's latest Airbus A350 taking Br...
XiamenAir eyes Melbourne-Hangzhou flights
SkyTeam alliance member XiamenAir will link Melbourne with Hangzhou, China from December as the airline plans twice-weekly Boei...
World's longest flights herald death of hubs
To see where an airline is heading, look at its order book. The routes a carrier can fly and the markets it can serve are defi...
Air Canada plans year-round Melbourne flights
Star Alliance member Air Canada will launch year-round Melbourne-Vancouver flights in June 2018 using its Boeing 787-9 aircraf...
Qantas ditches Dubai
Qantas will axe Dubai from its route map and return to Singapore as the stopover for flights from Sydney to London. From March...
