After four months of border closures, Qantas and Jetstar are today set to help loved ones reunite as the first regular flights between Melbourne and Sydney take off. The airlines will operate a combined 17 return flights between Sydney and Melbourne today, carrying around 4500 people. During the lockdown, flights on the route dropped to as low as one […]

Qantas and Accor have announced a deeper partnership that will see mutual members of their loyalty programs be rewarded at every stage of their travel journey.  Scheduled to launch mid-2021, it will be the first partnership of its kind between an airline and hospitality group in the Asia Pacific region. This new partnership will give […]

Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services (QANTAS) today marks 100 years since it was founded in the Australian outback. On 16 November 1920, two veterans of the Australian Flying Corps, Hudson Fysh and Paul McGinness, together with local grazier Fergus McMaster, founded what would later become the national carrier. This happened just 17 years after […]

Today, we mark the 100th anniversary of Qantas. For me, there are a few simple facts that sum up why this airline has endured and what it means to Australia. Anyone who thinks the success of Qantas was a forgone conclusion need only consider its humble origins. It was started by two recently-returned WW1 pilots […]

Qantas has today announced a major expansion of its network from the nation’s capital with three new routes commencing in the next month from Canberra. Details of the three new routes are: Canberra-Sunshine Coast will operate three times a week and start on Thursday 19 November Canberra-Cairns will operate twice a week and starts on […]