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First Airbus A350 for Qatar to fly December 15
The first Airbus A350 will be handed over to launch customer Qatar Airways on December 22 ahead of its inaugural comm...
Scoot to fly daily on Perth-Singapore
Singapore Airlines' low-cost offshoot Scoot will begin daily flights between Perth and Singapore from February 1st, 2015. The ...
Priority boarding: now open to Qantas Gold
Qantas Gold frequent flyers can now use priority lanes to skip the boarding gate queues on Australian domestic flights. A Qan...
Virgin launches trans-Tasman business class
Virgin Australia is now selling business class on its trans-Tasman routes, which will debut on Sydney-Auckland flights from Feb...
Qantas: first A330 Business Suite routes
Qantas has started to draw back the curtain on early routes for its upgraded Airbus A330s, today revealing inaugural domestic a...
Scoot to go Melbourne-Singapore on 787
Singapore Airlines' low-cost offshoot Scoot will begin Boeing 787 flights between Melbourne and Singapore next year, going head...
AirNZ to buy more Boeing 787-9s
IN BRIEF | Air New Zealand will buy two more Boeing 787-9s, taking its total Dreamliner fleet to 12. The Kiwi carrier, which w...
Qantas flags $350 million profit
Qantas expects to record a $300-350 million profit for the six months from July to December, CEO Alan Joyce revealed today, wit...
AirAsia X axes Adelaide flights
AirAsia X will abandon Adelaide on January 25 2015, the airline has confirmed, just 15 months after the low-cost Malaysian air...
Etihad upgrades dining, sleep service
Etihad's premium passengers now enjoy improved inflight meals and an upgraded sleep service in both business and first class as...
Festive food for Virgin Australia
Virgin Australia's putting some Christmas cheer into your pre-Christmas flying – and probably adding pre-Christmas pounds...
MAS partners with Poh Ling Yeow
Malaysia Airlines is now serving a new signature dish from MasterChef fave and TV presenter Poh Ling Yeow on all flights from ...
Earn 2x Qantas, Velocity points with CBA
By whipping out your Commonwealth Bank Awards MasterCard over the coming months you could earn double Qantas or Virgin Australi...
Earn triple Virgin Australia FF points
Virgin Australia is doling out triple Velocity points on business class, premium economy and economy flights for a short time, ...
American Airlines reveals new uniforms
American Airlines has new uniforms on the way, with first images of the designer threads now breaking cover. The uniform rev...
Qantas: no plans to drop fuel surcharge
The Flying Kangaroo may be bouncing back into the black thanks in part to a global slump in oil prices, but don't expect f...
Qantas sets course for return to profit
Qantas is flying steady towards a return to profit in a dramatic turnaround which could prove an early vindication of Alan Joyc...
AirNZ 'Airline of the Year': AirlineRatings
Air New Zealand has been named 'Airline of the Year' by AirlineRatings.com, marking the second year in a row that the Kiwi carr...
