November 26, 2021
New Green Tier to sit alongside existing tiers
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.
Read More…November 17, 2021
First of its kind hospitality partnership enables members to double-dip on points
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.
Read More…November 1, 2021
QF12 from Los Angeles touches down, QF1 to Sydney departing at 6:30pm
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.
Read More…October 29, 2021
Redesigned digital booking experience, new menus and protocols
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.
Read More…October 28, 2021
Catalina lounge repurposed for re-routed flagship Australia-UK route
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.
Read More…October 22, 2021
New Sydney-Darwin-Delhi-Sydney route flagged to launch in early December
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.
Read More…October 4, 2021
Renewed partnership to assist global carriers recover from the pandemic
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.
Read More…September 13, 2021
Oneworld member carriers knocked back on planned Australia-Japan partnership
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.
Read More…August 26, 2021
Australian carrier’s A380s to return to service soon that first thought
Qantas Group is optimistic for a return to commercial international flights from December to destinations on a similar path to Australia’s vaccination threshold.
Read More…July 29, 2021
Digital health pass to be ready to roll once international services resume
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.
Read More…July 1, 2021
Pilot travel sellers begin test booking, servicing via the Amadeus Travel Platform.
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.
Read More…May 20, 2021
AFTA says members left “very disappointed” by the cost-saving measure
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%.
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