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Qantas, Virgin Australia prepare to boost widebody flying – and more new arrivals are on the horizon
Virgin Australia appears much further away from purchasing its own widebodies. Although it has signalled that it will look to ...
Too Slow? How An Emirates Airbus A380 Caused Landing Drama In San Francisco
The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger aircraft in the world and, accordingly, requires longer takeoff rolls and specific considerations for wake turbulence. Controllers are trained to anticipate ...
What Is The Oldest Plane Still Flying In The Qantas Fleet?
The oldest aircraft still flying for the Qantas Group is a Fokker 100 currently serving its regional QantasLink airline.
Qantas medical incident shows risk of single-pilot flights, says AIPA
The captain of QF505, which was operating from Brisbane to Sydney aboard VH-VXI (pictured), experienced chest pains en route ...
The World’s Top 10 Airbus A380 Routes This Summer
This near-seven-month period will see 104 routes operated by the Airbus A380. They include four one-stop services: Qantas ...
Travel Radar11d
Legendary Aircraft That Revolutionized Commercial Aviation: Airbus A380
The Airbus A380 is the largest passenger plane in the world. It transformed commercial aviation with its unmatched passenger ...
Travel + Leisure13d
This Couple Booked Honeymoon Flights Worth More Than $40,000 All On Points—Here’s How They Did It
Points and miles can give you the chance to explore the world. In this series of I Got There With, we explore how one couple ...
Australian Broadcasting Corporation14d
Qantas flight heading to Perth returns to Sydney after smoke detected in cockpit
A Qantas flight has been forced to return to Sydney Airport after smoke was detected in the cockpit shortly after take-off on Monday morning. The Sydney to Perth flight landed normally back in ...
How Heathrow’s great reshuffle could work – these are the potential passenger benefits
Airport bosses aim to make the best use of the limited space at Heathrow, to match available capacity with demand and improve resilience. But airlines have long-standing investments in lounges and ...
The Australian Financial Review17d
Which first and business class does Joe Aston rate?
Implicit in this question is the erroneous assumption that I don’t fly Qantas. In fact, I fly them exceedingly often. I’ve been a Platinum One member of Qantas’ Frequent Flyer program for ...