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Virgin Blue's Brisbane upgrade, new A330s
Virgin Blue continues to step up its efforts to steal market share from Qantas' "near-monopoly" on the Australian business tra...
Mumbai to get second international airport
India’s financial capital is to get its much-needed and long-delayed second airport by 2015. The airport at Navi Mumbai ...
Etihad offers free Abu Dhabi stopovers
UAE-based Etihad airlines will offer flyers in first and business class a free stopover at one of two top hotels in Abu Dhabi a...
Qantas resumes A380 flights -- with restrictions
Qantas’ A380 fleet has been grounded for almost four weeks after an explosion caused one of the engines of flight QF32 to...
MAS to run six weekly Adelaide-Kuala Lumpur flights
Malaysian Airlines (MAS) continues to ramp up the frequency of its Australian services with the introduction of near-daily dire...
Air France's two-metre long business class bed
Air France is about to begin rollout of its new just-over-two-metre-long bed next month as the French flag carrier refreshes it...
Qantas hikes credit card booking fee by 20%
Qantas is raising the credit card surcharge on international bookings from December 1st with the fee jumping from $25 to $30 pe...
Virgin on Qantas: "No competitor is invincible"
Virgin Blue CEO John Borghetti is set to attack Qantas' "near-monopoly" on the Australian business travel market, declaring tha...
Leaked photos: Qantas A380 damage
Leaked photos taken by Airbus engineers tell the tale of how badly damaged Qantas' Airbus A380 was after the uncontained engine...
Garuda to bring SkyTeam alliance closer to Australia
Australian travellers will have more reason to take notice of the SkyTeam alliance when Garuda Indonesia joins the group in 201...
Did Rolls-Royce know A380 engines could explode?
Rolls Royce knew about problems in its A380 engines months before Qantas' one exploded, but didn't tell the airline -- or the a...
Qantas:
Update Qantas’ new wireless Q Bag Tags are swish and smart – smartchipped, in fact – but frequent flyers st...
LAN increases Sydney services
In yet another sign that business travel has bounced back, LAN Airlines has resumed daily weekday flights from Sydney to Santia...
Qantas upgrades seats & screens
Australia's longest direct flight – the five hour trek from Sydney to Perth – will soon be more bearable more often...
Which Aussie airports will miss out on Qantas Next-Generation Check-in?
Qantas passengers in Sydney and Perth can already check in and board a domestic flight with a swipe of their smartchip-equipped...
The 'new Qantas domestic experience' revealed
Update Qantas has just completed today's launch of its 'new domestic experience'. We all know about Next Generation Check-in,...
Telstra boosts iPad data expiry to 365 days
Telstra has announced a new annual prepaid Next G plan which will keep 3G iPads connected on the excellent Next G network for j...
Get frequent flyer points for mobile checkins
Frequent flyers and pointhounds now have two more ways to build up their account, albeit in small chunks. Virgin America and U...