Three new flights kicked off over the weekend that I wish I'd been on. One was a historic flight from Perth, Australia to London that lasted over 17 hours.
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Three new flights kicked off over the weekend that I wish I'd been on. One was a historic flight from Perth, Australia to London that lasted over 17 hours.
Happy Friday. Here are two short videos to start off the weekend, including a pretty new safety video from Qantas.
Pass the mustard. Qantas flew a plane between Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia using a blened biofuel made from mustard seeds.
Customers helped Qantas choose the names for the carrier's fleet of 787-9 Dreamliners. One of them will be named Boomerang.
Qantas Airways has a new virtual reality app that lets everyone visit Australia. Virtually, of course.
Forget the seat-back screen and your bring-on-board tablet. In an in-flight entertainment first, Australian carrier Qantas will soon be making Samsung’s virtual reality headsets, called Gear VR, available to premium passengers on some long-distance flights. A three-month trial run begins in mid-March, when Qantas plans to make the headsets available to first-class passengers on some […]
Happy Friday. Here are two short videos to start off the weekend, including a pretty new safety video from Qantas.
Pass the mustard. Qantas flew a plane between Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia using a blened biofuel made from mustard seeds.
Customers helped Qantas choose the names for the carrier's fleet of 787-9 Dreamliners. One of them will be named Boomerang.
Qantas Airways has a new virtual reality app that lets everyone visit Australia. Virtually, of course.
Forget the seat-back screen and your bring-on-board tablet. In an in-flight entertainment first, Australian carrier Qantas will soon be making Samsung’s virtual reality headsets, called Gear VR, available to premium passengers on some long-distance flights. A three-month trial run begins in mid-March, when Qantas plans to make the headsets available to first-class passengers on some […]
Look what’s back: Qantas has reached way back for its first ever “retro” inspired livery, which can now be seen on one of the airline’s brand new Boeing 737 aircraft. The design is a tribute to 70 years of the airline’s iconic flying kangaroo logo and was unveiled at a special hangar event in Seattle. […]
It’s been a big A380 week for DFW International Airport: On Monday, I was pleased to be on board when Qantas began flying the world’s largest airplane – the Airbus A380 – on the world’s longest nautical route – from Sydney to Dallas/Fort Worth. On Wednesday, DFW International Airport celebrated the arrival of another A380: […]
Airline amenity kits filled with personal care items have been handed out to business and/or first-class passengers on long commercial flights since at least the 1950s. Utilitarian at first, today these chic containers and their posh contents have become coveted and collectible and are often designed by top designers and filled with luxury products. Here’s […]