Qantas Launches Sydney-Delhi Flights

Qantas will resume regular flights to India after almost a decade, with Sydney-Delhi flights to commence on 6 December 2021. The route will initially operate 3x weekly, increasing to daily by the end of the year. Flight QF67 will operate from Sydney to Delhi via Darwin, while the return service QF68 will fly non-stop from … Continued

Virgin Launches 6 New Routes, Brings Forward Fiji

Virgin Australia has been on a new route blitz, announcing six new domestic routes over recent days and bringing forward its planned restart of flights to Fiji. New Virgin flights to Coffs Harbour Last week, Virgin announced it would resume up to double-daily flights from Sydney to Coffs Harbour from 11 November 2021, as NSW … Continued

Qantas International Schedule Doesn’t Add Up

Qantas is busily preparing to restart international flights from next month. The airline will begin with flights from Sydney to London and Los Angeles, currently on sale from 14 November 2021, and gradually ramp up services over the following months. It sounds great, in theory. But Qantas doesn’t actually have enough planes to operate all … Continued

Qantas Flies Non-Stop from Buenos Aires to Darwin

Qantas operated its longest ever “commercial” flight yesterday, flying 107 passengers non-stop from Buenos Aires in Argentina to Darwin. Flight QF14 took off from Ministro Pistarini International Airport in Buenos Aires at 12.44pm on Tuesday, local time, before heading south for the 15,037km trip to Darwin. (The actual flight path was 354km longer than the … Continued

How Qantas Plans to Fly Airbus A330s to the USA

Update: Qantas has delayed the resumption of flights between Brisbane and the United States, but still plans to use Airbus A330s when these routes resume in 2022. Qantas plans to gradually resume international flights from 18 December 2021. But with Qantas’ Airbus A380s not returning to the skies until mid-2022, the Boeing 747s retired and the delivery … Continued