Tue, 21-Oct-2025

Airbus announces unchanged first-half deliveries

Airbus

Airbus posts flat first-half deliveries as it struggles to convert production plans into handovers. The world’s largest planemaker said it delivered 60 commercial airplanes in June. The total for the year so far is 297, unchanged from the halfway point last year. Delta Air Lines topped up a fleet of A330neo jets with one extra … Read more

Australia’s Qantas to open direct flights from Australia to Rome

SYDNEY — Australia’s largest airline Qantas will soon extend its services to provide the nation’s only direct flights to continental Europe. From next June, Qantas will offer return flights three times a week from the largest city of Sydney to Perth Western Australia (WA) and then non-stop to the Italian capital of Rome. The service, … Read more

Australia’s Qantas gears up for soaring Christmas deliveries demand

Australia’s Qantas

SYDNEY: Australia’s largest airline Qantas is boosting its fleet of freight planes to handle the boom in parcel deliveries this Christmas as well as the nation’s ever-rising increase in online shopping. Qantas Chief Executive Alan Joyce announced on Tuesday that a new wide-bodied Airbus A321 has been added to the freight fleet that operates on … Read more