A record breaking repatriation flight has flown 15,020 kilometres from Buenos Aires to Darwin and touched down after 17 hours and 25 minutes in the air. Since March 2020 the airline has operated hundreds of charter and repatriation flights of behalf of the Australian Government to bring Australians home during the COVID19 pandemic, flying to […]

Qantas has entered the final stages of a formal tender process with aircraft and engine manufacturers for the long-term renewal of its domestic narrow-body fleet. The program, which has been flagged previously, will see more than 100 new aircraft enter the national carrier’s domestic fleet by 2034, renewing the Boeing 737-800s and Boeing 717s that […]

Qantas to activate a further five E190 jets Aircraft to be based in Adelaide, creating hundreds of jobs New routes, extra 1 million seats in and out of Adelaide Adelaide will be the home of five Embraer E190 aircraft as Qantas continues to boost domestic flights in response to growing leisure and corporate travel demand. […]

Deal with Alliance Airlines to provide capacity using recently acquired Embraer E190s aircraft from mid-2021. The E190 offers right range and size to better service routes linking regional centres with smaller capital cities. Flexibility to increase or decrease capacity provided by Alliance depending on market conditions. Opportunity for Qantas Group crew to fly E190s with […]

THE LAST PLANE OUT OF SYDNEY’S ALMOST GONE Qantas will today mark the end of an era with the departure of the national carrier’s last Boeing 747 jumbo jet. The final 747-400 in the fleet (registration VH-OEJ) will depart Sydney at 2pm as flight number QF7474, bringing to an end five decades of history-making moments […]