Enhancing alliances, launch of Emirates partnership Qantas’ world leading airline partnership with Emirates was successfully launched on 31 March 2013.
The partnership delivers on Qantas’ outstanding customer product offering and enables Qantas to provide its customers with 98 weekly services between Australia and Dubai. Dubai’s 24 hour hub provides seamless connections to over 175 destinations worldwide for Qantas customers. This has enabled the exit of loss making routes and the restructure of the Asian network.
The Qantas and Emirates partnership continues to expand with joint network bookings across the trans-Tasman available from August 2013. Together, we will operate around 130 services per week from Auckland, Christchurch, Wellington and Queenstown to Australian east coast cities – then onwards to more than 65 destinations in the Middle East, North Africa and Europe.
With increased dedicated capacity to Singapore and Hong Kong, enabling more same-day connectivity across Asia, Qantas International is well placed to better service the Asian market – the world’s fastest growing aviation market. Ongoing enhancement to the Asian code shares, including the expansion of the China Eastern partnership, will also deliver improved connectivity and reach into Asia.
The gateway strategy extends beyond the Emirates Partnership and Asia:
» Daily flying into Dallas Fort Worth, with connections to American Airlines’ US domestic network.
» Ongoing discussions with LATAM to strengthen Santiago as the gateway to South America, with TAM joiningoneworld in 2014.
» Reaffirming our partnership with South African Airways, opening up southern Africa via Johannesburg.