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Air New Zealand's OneUp upgrade auctions
Frequent flyers are used to spending points for upgrades, or even being offered bargain-basement rates at check-in to pay their...
Virgin's 2012 plans for business travellers
Virgin Australia's CEO John Borghetti has revealed his plans for the airline through the end of this year and into 2012 at toda...
Virgin Australia's new Sydney lounge
Virgin Australia is set to transform its well-worn lounge at Sydney Airport into a 'flagship' lounge spread over two floors. S...
QF to launch domestic priority boarding
Qantas will launch dedicated ‘express lanes’ at airports around Australia beginning this month, allowing business class passen...
New AirNZ Airpoints card
IN BRIEF | Air New Zealand will issue some 700,000 frequent flyers with a new Airpoints card which doubles as a digital bo...
October 2011 on-time results
IN BRIEF | Virgin Australia's punctuality dipped slightly in October, according to government data, but the airline retains a s...
Bond is back with Virgin Atlantic
IN BRIEF | James Bond is back in the air with Virgin Atlantic, after Sir Richard Branson's airline inked a new sponsorship deal...
QF starts Perth-Geraldton flights
IN BRIEF | Qantas is ramping up the WA footprint of it regional QantasLink arm with today's debut of daily services between&nbs...
Priority boarding: so what’s the big deal?
Qantas will finally introduce priority boarding for domestic flights this week, joining Virgin Australia in offering an ‘expre...
Hawaiian's NYC flights: new one-stop from AU
Hawaiian Airlines is starting daily direct flights to New York next June, providing another one-stop option to NYC, via Honolul...
Emirates adds A380 Dubai-London
Emirates will upgrade a third daily return flight between Dubai and London's Heathrow Airport to the airline's flagship Airbus ...
Qantas lays out 787 Dreamliner plans
UPDATE | Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner will make a second visit to Australia starting Thursday May 24, 2012 – and th...
Photos & video: Qantas' refurbed 747s
Qantas has just completed updating its Boeing 747-400ER planes with brand new Airbus A380-style seats and cabins. It's a big c...
All-biz flights HKG-London start in 2012
Hong Kong Airlines's daily all-business class flights between Hong Kong and London's secondary airport Gatwick will start next ...
How to see the Boeing 787 Dreamliner at Melbourne
LATEST | Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner will make a second visit to Australia starting Thursday May 24, 2012 – and th...
Photo tour: Qantas' 787 Sydney event
UPDATE | Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner will make a second visit to Australia starting Thursday May 24, 2012 – and th...
Why you'll love the Boeing 787
Yes, it's new and shiny and All Other Things Good – but don’t think that the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is just another ...
QF wants a stretch Dreamliner
Qantas doesn't even have its first Boeing 787 Dreamliner but the airline is already talking to Boeing about a 'super-stretched'...