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Qantas adds flights between Canberra and Adelaide
Qantas is adding an extra return flight on the Canberra-Adelaide route five days a week from this October. That's a total of...
Qantas boosts flights to Tasmania
Business travellers heading to and from Tasmania will see extra Qantas flights from Melbourne to Hobart, Launceston and Devonpo...
Qantas, Virgin Australia win world airline awards
Qantas has taken top spot in the 2012 World Airline Awards for its superb international first class lounge at Sy...
How airline food can make or break your trip
There's a lot of advice out there on what to eat when you fly. Business travellers tend to have a better time of it, with busin...
Best seats: premium economy, Qantas refurb A380
Flying premium economy on one of Qantas' Airbus A380s? You'll want to check your booking to see if you're on the new standard c...
AirNZ's new upgrade auction system
Air New Zealand's new 'bid for upgrades' auction system takes effect tomorrow, July 12, as the airline abandons the long-standi...
Qantas upgrades 737-800 bag bins
Qantas will trial a new overhead bin system in its Boeing 737-800 aircraft designed to fit not only larger carry-on bags, ...
The latest airline fee: first off the plane?
Priority boarding for business class passengers and frequent flyers is still rolling out among Australia's airlines, but how ab...
Qantas brings back the 747 for SYD-PER
Qantas is once again wheeling out the big guns on Australia's most popular cross-country route, with a mighty Boeing ...
Emirates: new flights, better seats to EU/Africa
In addition to its new Adelaide flights and plans to provide Perth travellers with a triple-daily schedule to Dubai, Emirates i...
Scoot to start Taipei flights from September 18
Singapore Airlines' low-cost offshoot Scoot will begin flights to Taipei from September 18. Initially running three times per ...
MAS launches A380 Sydney-London in Nov
Malaysia Airlines will start daily 'A380 all the way' flights between Sydney and London via Kuala Lumpur from November 26 this...
Airbus predicts the future of travel
What do you want from the future of travel? Following a two-year survey of people in 192 countries, Airbus says it has the answ...
Sir Richard Branson slams Qantas
Sir Richard Branson has come out swinging against Qantas, saying the Australian flag-carrier is running scared of competition a...
Virgin Australia iPhone app, mobile boarding pass
Virgin Australia has unveiled its first iPhone app, and says an Android app will follow 'later this year'. But it's not a full...
Is this HK's new Qantas First Lounge?
UPDATE | According to Qantas, these realistic images are not the shape of the new Qantas First Lounge at Hong Kong. "They are...
Virgin business class now on smaller 737-700s
If you've been caught out by the few aircraft in Virgin Australia's fleet that still don't have business class, the odds are tu...
Virgin tops Qantas in domestic passengers
UPDATE | Qantas has lashed out at yesterday's report by AAP (Australian Associated Press) which claimed that Virgin Australia c...