Qantas Group is inviting the world’s most innovative startups, scaleups and digital disruptors to apply for its second AVRO Accelerator program.   The AVRO Accelerator, run in partnership with Slingshot (opens in new window), gives entrepreneurs the chance to work …

Elizabeth Ann Macgregor OBE, Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia (MCA) and Dr Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate, today announced the acquisition of eight new artworks in their International Joint Acquisition Program for contemporary Australian art, supported …

If long flights make you nervous but have to travel anyway, there is some good news – particularly for air travelers between Australia and England.   The first direct flight between Australia and Britain has landed in London, which has …

London’s Heathrow Airport gets its first scheduled nonstop flights Australia and the United Kingdom.     The Qantas Flight QF9 has completed its 14,498km journey from Perth in just over 17 hours.  This new nonstop flight service will boost the …

Qantas airlines, Changi Airport Group and the Singapore Tourism Board had announced a S$5 million partnership to increase the number of visitors to Singapore.     This high end partnership is the first of its kind with a foreign carrier, …

Healthy poke bowls and a herbal tea designed especially for Qantas, are among the new dining choices on Qantas’ new 787 Dreamliner Perth to London menus to increase hydration and help reduce jetlag.     The airline’s Creative Director of …

Being offered cash at the fate to avail of a later flight due to overbooking might end up a rare occurrence if technology being examined by major airlines including JetBlue, Qantas and British Airways catches on fast.   Several airlines …

The world’s first dedicated biofuel flight between the United States and Australia, QF96 from Los Angeles to Melbourne, is set to depart later today.     The historic trans-Pacific 15 hour flight will operate with approximately 24,000kg of blended biofuel, …

The fuel efficiency of 20 carriers flying the transpacific route by the International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) was analysed and an environmental lobby group, found Australia’s flag carrier Qantas was almost two-thirds less efficient than the leading airlines, Japan’s …

A flight of Turkish Airlines was compelled to make an emergency diversion on Thursday when the flight crew suddenly detected a mobile Wi-Fi network named ‘Bomb on Board’.   This flight had been heading from Nairobi to Istanbul.   It …