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The Flying (Roo) Doctor Service
Read moreOur mates at QantasLink have a group of aircraft engineers called the Flying Spanners. Think of them like the friendly mechanic who drives out to fix your car when you’ve broken down. Except these aircraft engineers will usually be flown into remote or regional destinations to get one of our planes back into service. Say […]
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QANTAS RELEASES SHORTLIST FOR 787 FLEET NAMES
Read moreAn opera singer, native animals, references to Indigenous culture and some of the country’s best known landmarks are among the Australian icons suggested to appear on Qantas’ new fleet of Boeing 787 Dreamliners. Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce said more than 10,000 submissions were sent to the airline and each entry included an average of […]
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QANTAS AND EMIRATES: CHANGES TO SYDNEY- AUCKLAND ROUTE
Read moreQantas will introduce twice-daily* Airbus A330 flights on the Sydney-Auckland route, as part of operational changes to the joint Qantas-Emirates network across the Tasman. From 13 July 2017, Emirates will suspend its daily EK418 and EK419 A380 flights between Sydney and Auckland, with those flights replaced by the Qantas A330 services. Qantas will also upgauge […]
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How do we get a plane in the air without taking off?
Read moreOK, there a few caveats behind that headline. But, it’s technically true. We can lift an Airbus A330 and even larger planes off the ground using giant hydraulic jacks. Why do we do it? Because it’s the easiest way to test that the landing gear is working correctly. And how do we do it? The […]
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QANTAS PUTS AUSSIE ART ON ITS BUSINESS CLASS AMENITY KITS
Read moreQantas has teamed up with some of Australia’s leading artists, photographers and digital influencers to feature their work on the airline’s international Business class amenity kits. With artworks named Fairy Bread, 7000 Ironbarks and Maaate, the initiative called ‘Qantas Curates’ has seen the airline work with professional Australian contemporary art curators to select artworks from […]
