Qantas Frequent Flyers who make sustainable choices at home and when they travel will be rewarded under a new “Green” membership tier to roll out early next year. The Green tier will sit alongside existing flying tiers, and is designed to educate, encourage and reward the airline’s 13 million frequent flyers for everything from offsetting their flights, staying in eco-hotels, walking to work and installing solar panels at home.

Members of Qantas Frequent Flyer and Accor’s loyalty program, ALL – Accor Live Limitless, can for the first time be rewarded twice when they fly with Qantas and stay at one of Accor’s hotels.

Nearly 600 days after Australia closed its international borders, Qantas commercial passenger flights have taken to the skies to reconnect Australia to the rest of the world.

Qantas has unveiled a range of new experiences as the airline prepares to resume scheduled international flights next week for the first time in 20 months.

Darwin International Airport’s Catalina lounge will serve as Qantas’ temporary lounge for eligible customers travelling between Sydney and London, via Darwin, from next month.

Qantas is fast-tracking the revival of a number of key global routes and launching a new Sydney-Delhi service, the national carrier has announced today. The Australian flag-carrier is also bringing two Airbus A380 superjumbos back into operation three months earlier than planned; reviving the jobs of thousands of staff who had been laid off due to COVID; and accelerating the delivery of three brand new Boeing 787 Dreamliner aircraft.

Qantas and Emirates will seek a further five-year extension of their joint aviation partnership with regulators, such as the ACCC, which will assist the airlines’ businesses recover from the impact of COVID-19. The arrangement provides benefits to the public, expanding the scope of each carriers’ networks across Australia, New Zealand, Europe and the UK.

Qantas and Japan Airlines have had their proposed alliance between Australia and Japan quashed by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC). Their proposed arrangement would have allowed the airlines to stop competing on all aspects of price and service for three years.

Qantas Group is optimistic for a return to commercial international flights from December to destinations on a similar path to Australia’s vaccination threshold.

Qantas Group has confirmed it is in the final stages of the development of a digital health pass that all passengers on international Qantas and Jetstar flights will be required to use once overseas flights resume.

Amadeus has started to deliver Qantas’ NDC-sourced content to pilot travel sellers to test booking, servicing through the Amadeus Travel Platform. Select travel advisors can shop, book, and pay for NDC offers sourced from the Qantas Distribution Platform (QDP). This includes ancillary services not available via EDIFACT, special price offers, and fully integrated post-booking servicing like cancelling, and refunding an NDC booking.

The Australian Federation of Travel Agents (AFTA) Board says it is “very disappointed” in a decision taken by Qantas to slash commissions paid to travel advisors for international tickets to a paltry 1%.