Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says he wants to order the Boeing 787, but only after the airline has paid down debt and strengthened its balance sheet. “I want to order it, I think everybody at Qantas wants to have them, they’d love those aircraft to come in,” Joyce said in Brisbane on Tuesday, the day after Qantas
Singapore Airlines owned long-haul low-cost carrier Scoot has announcement plans to begin services to Melbourne next year. Melbourne will become Scoot’s fourth Australian destination when five times weekly Boeing 787-9 services begin on November 1 2015. “We’ve heard loud and clear the demands of Scoot to fly to Melbourne, and we’re delighted to finally be
Qantas is set to begin new four times weekly services between Brisbane and Tokyo Narita from August 1 2015, and has announced it will shift its daily Sydney-Tokyo flights from Narita to Haneda from July 31 2015. And a further three times weekly service to Narita, operating on alternate days to the Brisbane flights, will
Quickstep says it has secured a new purchase order to build a further 12 flap sets plus spares for Lockheed Martin’s C-130J Hercules airlifter. The flaps are covered by a December 2013 memorandum of agreement with Lockheed Martin to supply more than 120 carbon fibre flaps for the C-130J aircraft through until 2018. The latest
Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon has flagged capacity growth in the order of five to six per cent a year over the next five years as the airline adds a further two Boeing 787-9 aircraft to its existing order book. The airline announced the order for two more Dreamliners, which are due for delivery
Qantas’s international operations are expected to make a positive contribution to the airline’s return to profitability in the first half of 2014/15 as the carrier makes “rapid progress” with its three-year, $2 billion cost cutting program. Despite the brighter outlook for the long-suffering international arm, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the airline will maintain
