Qantas Airways

About 2,800 seats per day will be added to Australia’s busiest flight path.

An alliance between Qantas and American Airlines that allows the carriers to cooperate on transpacific routes is set to be extended for a further five years.

Australia’s competition commission is poised to green light the joint venture for a further five years.

Qantas expects to reopen almost all of its international routes by late October, although they will be operated by smaller widebodies as its Airbus A380s will remain parked.

The airline had previously hoped to start long-haul international flying in July.

Australian carrier Regional Express (Rex) plans to embark on “a major revamp of its regional route network” in response to “aggressive predatory moves by Qantas” into thin regional domestic routes.

Qantas has hit back at the claims, describing them as a 'classic Rex tantrum.'

The latest approval removes conditions previously imposed on flights between Shanghai and Sydney.

Qantas expects to begin flying Embraer E190 aircraft on Australian domestic services from June.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce is hoping to revisit ultra-long-haul operation “Project Sunrise” later in 2021, for a possible launch from 2024, which could coincide with the Australian carrier’s Airbus A380s emerging from storage.

Leading Tier 1 supplier Spirit AeroSystems and the U.S. Export-Import Bank (Ex-Im) have inaugurated a new kind of federally backed, discounted-rate lending for aerospace suppliers—beginning with a $40 million transaction based on receivables from Spirit’s lower-tier providers.

Carriers in both countries await the establishment of a two-way travel bubble.

Qantas and Japan Airlines (JAL) have revealed plans for extensive cooperation on routes between Australasia and Japan.

Qantas subsidiary Jetstar is planning to increase domestic flying during the first quarter of 2021 amid strong travel demand in Australia and the reopening of state borders.

The LCC expects domestic capacity in Australia to top 2019 levels by the end of March next year.

Qantas is continuing to see a rapid rebound in its domestic network as more state borders open; the airline expects this will help prompt the beginnings of a financial recovery.

Qantas and low-cost subsidiary Jetstar are planning to ramp up their flying in December in response to the easing of state border restrictions in Australia.

Ten domestic routes are being reinstated by the carriers alongside frequency increases on a further five.

The Australian carriers have been provisionally cleared to cooperate on more than 40 routes despite objections from REX.

Australia’s national airline is adding more flights from the country’s capital.

With the Australian state of Victoria gaining control over COVID-19, Australia's busiest domestic route can be restarted in earnest.

Qantas is set to dramatically boost its domestic flights when a key Australian interstate route reopens later in November.

Qantas is expecting its domestic capacity to ramp up significantly as more Australian state borders reopen, but the recovery is still slower than the airline had projected.

A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports seek to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.

A weekly round-up of the latest news from the aviation industry as airlines and airports seek to recover from the COVID-19 crisis.