Category Archives: Airline News

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Qantas And Alaska Airlines Improve Their Partnership

Qantas has partnerships with 2 airlines in the United States, American Airlines and Alaska Airlines. Both include lounge access, points earning, redemptions and codeshare services. The partnership with American has been quite rocky for the last year. They’ve been trying to get their joint venture back since it was denied in November of 2016. However, both […]

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Virgin Australia And Hong Kong Airlines Announce Codeshare

A few months ago, Virgin Australia announced that they will launch services to Hong Kong. In 2016, the carrier also announced plans to partner with the HNA group. This meant the Virgin Australia group and HNA Aviation would have a greater reach into Asia and Australia. HNA Aviation is the largest private group of airlines in Asia, […]

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Qantas Will Replace Emirates’ Sydney – Auckland A380 Service With An A330

If you’re familiar with travelling to New Zealand from Australia, you’re probably aware that Emirates have some services across the pond. The airline uses these flights to make revenue instead of letting the superjumbo’s sit on the ground doing nothing. Emirates have flights from Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne to Auckland as well as Sydney – Christchurch. […]

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Srilankan Airlines Will Serve Melbourne From The End Of The Year

Srilankan Airlines which is the largest and flag carrier of Sri Lanka has announced that they will operate services from Srilanka to Melbourne starting in October. The flight will leave from their hub Colombo and will use their A330-200 aircraft. This isn’t the first time the carrier has touched down in Australia, according to Airlineroute Srilankan […]

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