Qantas is on-track for a final decision on the purchase of aircraft for Project Sunrise before the end of this year. But the Australian airline will only proceed if it makes sense economically: “Rest assured Project Sunrise will only be…
In the past 24 hours two news items emerged that look like impacting Qantas and its “Project Sunrise”. The first news item was the possible development of an Airbus A350-1000ULR, which should have the ability to offer Qantas an aircraft…
Qantas has chosen the Airbus A321XLR to play a major role on its future domestic and Australia/Asia network. The airline announced on June 19 it had converted 26 A321neo’s to the new extra long range-version, while ordering 10 additional XLRs.…
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With another two stories today about in-flight component failures (Southwest, Sichuan), we are being reminded that airplanes are vulnerable. There is nothing quite like an airline/airplane scary story to catch people’s attention. The industry safety statistics are too good to…
Today it emerged that Qatar Airways has bought another stake in an airline. This time it spent $662m on a near 10% stake in Cathay Pacific. The move by the airline follows a pattern as the table illustrates. We can…