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Qantas to Consolidate Heavy Maintenance Facilities
Qantas has completed a review of its heavy aircraft maintenance and engineering operations in Australia and will consolidate heavy maintenance work into Brisbane and Avalon. The restructure is necessary as there is currently not enough heavy maintenance work required for three separate facilities and the introduction of new technology and modern aircraft means there will […]
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QantasLink jets into Emerald and expands services across Queensland
QantasLink today announced it will introduce Fokker F100* jet services between Brisbane and Emerald from 4 June 2012. These new jet services will support Q400 services on the route whilst also providing cascaded growth across several key Queensland markets including Roma and Bundaberg. QantasLink Executive Manager Narendra Kumar said QantasLink’s expansion of Queensland services would […]
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Qantas Freight Enterprises expands Asia network
Qantas Freight Enterprises today announced its inaugural scheduled freighter service from Sydney to the Chinese manufacturing hub of Chongqing and then onto to Chicago will take flight on 20 April 2012. Qantas Freight Enterprises Executive Manager Lisa Brock said the new service to Chongqing demonstrates that the business is well positioned to grow its footprint […]
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China Eastern Airlines and Qantas announce Jetstar Hong Kong
China Eastern Airlines and the Qantas Group (which owns the Jetstar Group) have entered a new strategic alliance to bring Asia’s leading low fares airline model to China with the creation of Jetstar Hong Kong. Jetstar Hong Kong will combine the partners’ local knowledge, networks and successful low cost carrier model to service short haul […]
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Qantas to operate biofuel flight
Qantas today announced it will operate Australia’s first commercial flights powered by sustainable aviation fuel on 13 April 2012.