Qantas

Qantas | March 25, 2016

QANTAS cleared international pilot Paul Whyte to fly one month before police believe he deliberately crashed his light aircraft into the ocean off northern NSW. The Lennox Head man passed a Qantas and CASA medical and mental health check in February even though he had been struggling to deal with a marriage breakdown for nearly a year....

Qantas | March 10, 2016

Emirates has bumped Qantas Airways out of the top spot for the world’s longest flight. Emirates took over the title Tuesday with the launch of its 8,819-mile nonstop route between Dubai in the United Arab Emirates and Auckland, New Zealand. That drops Qantas’ 8,576-mile route between Dallas/Fort Worth and Sydney, Australia – the previous record holder – into second place, according to flight-data provider OAG. Delta’s 8,434-mile nonstop route betwee A...

Qantas | January 25, 2016

While Air New Zealand has halted services from Port Vila to Auckland, Qantas will no longer sell Air Vanuatu's flights between Sydney and Brisbane and the Vanuatu capital as part of a code-sharing arrangement. New Zealand ran one last return service between Auckland and Vanuatu's Bauerfield International Airport on Sunday to repatriate customers....

Simple Flying | January 17, 2020

Canadian operator WestJet is planning a new transatlantic service. The Boeing 737 operated flight would be used to connect Canada’s Halifax to Manchester in the United Kingdom. The seasonal flight is set to operate over the 2020 summer period. WestJet is launching its third route from Halifax to the United Kingdom this summer. Accompanying its existing routes to London and Glasgow, the new connection will be operated by a Boeing 737 aircraft. Launching in June, the route will remain in ope...