Qatar Airways officially launched its award-winning Qsuite Business Class for Adelaide. Passengers can now experience Qsuite when travelling between Adelaide and 160 destinations worldwide, including over 55 European cities.

Two-Michelin-starred chef Alexander Herrmann has this month introduced a new children’s menu on board all Lufthansa long-haul flights and long European flights from Germany.

As Qantas prepares for the retirement of its stalwart Boeing 747 aircraft from its fleet, the Australian carrier has outlined a series of domestic services that guests will be able to book as part of the jumbo’s swansong.

Kokomo Private Island continues to enhance its customer journey from beginning to end with the opening of the first private aviation hangar at Nadi International Airport.

Air Vanuatu and the Vanuatu Tourism Office (VTO) have had a big week toasting the launch of their new direct, thrice-weekly, flight connecting Melbourne and Vanuatu’s capital, Port Vila, with the official inaugural flight touching down on Thursday, 20 June.

Qantas Frequent Flyers will soon pay significantly less fees for international reward flights, have access to more seats and enjoy more rewards for earning points on the ground as part of the biggest overhaul to the airline’s loyalty program in its 32 year history.

Finnair has rolled out a new online service that makes Finnish travel experiences easily accessible to international travellers. Dubbed Now/here, the service combines inspirational content with real-time inventory and availability for experiences, hotels and flights from a large number of sources. The service will be expanded to cater for the whole Nordic region in the future.

New York’s JetBlue Airways has urged the Trump Administration to make conditions to the future granting of antitrust immunity (ATI) between airlines “more robust”, as the carrier expressed concerns for the tentatively approved joint venture of Qantas and American Airlines.

Qantas will launch its new Brisbane-Chicago and Brisbane-San Francisco routes by the end of April 2020, the Australian carrier has confirmed today [Monday 17 June, 2019].

Mitsubishi Aircraft Corporation have unveiled plans for a new SpaceJet family aircraft that has the widest and tallest cabin in its class. Dubbed the SpaceJet M100, the aircraft will boast the “roomiest economy seat and the most overhead bin capacity”. 

Virgin Australia and Virgin Atlantic have filed plans for a proposed partnership on services between Australia and the UK and Ireland, via Hong Kong and Los Angeles. The alliance has the scope to include new routes, frequencies and capacity upgauges.

An alliance between Qantas and American Airlines has been given tentative approval by the Trump Administration following 16-months of deliberation. Subject to specific conditions, the partnership covers flights between Australia & New Zealand and the United States and must be implemented before the end of the year.