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China Southern flies Perth-Guangzhou-Beijing
China Southern is now flying business travellers directly from Perth to Guangzhou and Beijing, with this week's debut of fligh...
Virgin's double status credit deal
Want to fast-track your way to Velocity Gold or Platinum status with Virgin Australia? The airline is now offering double stat...
Qantas vs Virgin Australia cabin class upgrades
Business travellers know that an important part of their frequent flyer program is the opportunity to upgrade from one class to...
Best seats: Club World (Business) on BA's 747s
Flying on one of British Airways' Boeing 747 aircraft on the Sydney-Bangkok-London route or further afield? The venerable ju...
Jetstar launches in-flight iPad rentals
Jetstar is now renting iPads to passengers as personal in-flight entertainment devices on domestic, trans-Tasman and internatio...
All Virgin flights get biz class from Jan
All domestic Virgin Australia jet flights will see business class from 18 January 2012, with the airline's A330, Boeing 737 and...
Frequent flyer schemes: Qantas vs Virgin
What's the best frequent flyer program in Australia: Qantas Frequent Flyer or Virgin Australia's Velocity Frequent Flyer (also ...
Free flights for stranded QF passengers
Qantas is giving away free flights to all its passengers affected by last weekend’s snap cancellation of all flights. Th...
QF preps deal for frequent flyers
IN BRIEF | Qantas will add a special post-disruption sweetener for members of its Qantas Frequernt Flyer program, alongside the...
United's international in-flight internet
IN BRIEF | United is gearing up to introduce in-flight Internet on international flights as well as domestic US routes. Beginn...
Virgin picks up QF biztravellers
Virgin Australia is on the fast track to a 20% share of the domestic business travel market following Qantas' snap d...
The new 'Air Australia'
UPDATE | February 17, 2012 | Air Australia has shut down after running out of cash. All planes have been grounde...
Garuda's big plans for Indonesia and beyond
Garuda Indonesia is hoping to snare business travellers from Australia with its fully flat beds and daily flights to Jakarta, w...
QF compensation: $1800+
Qantas faces a payout of over $1,800 per passenger for travellers stranded in the UK or Europe due to last week’s dramati...
Do slimline Economy seats deserve the hype?
Slimline seats are supposed to make flying in economy bearable again: more legroom (and especially more knee-room) without sacr...
Shutdown: who pays for your trouble?
Update: The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has told Qantas that planned compensation amounts are not ade...
Lufthansa's Frankfurt-Cologne rail "flights"
Lufthansa no longer flies the 150 km from Frankfurt to Cologne, and instead reserves an entire car on thirteen 300km/h high-spe...
Delta Economy Comfort: not for Virgin passengers
US airline Delta is expanding its extra legroom Economy Comfort section to its US domestic fleet, in a move business travellers...