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Articles tagged “qantas”

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Qantas gets fancy with Kate Spade amenity kits as part of new business class upgrade

Qantas’ new "sleep service" upgrade is just another amenity with a price tag, but one that flyers might be happy to pay as it includes a padded mattress and quilt for overnight flights.

Qantas gets fancy with Kate Spade amenity kits as part of new business class upgrade

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Forget about food carts: Qantas rolls out iPad-charging trolleys for new in-flight entertainment

The transition marks the priorities of passengers, which have come to expect and prefer connectivity over corn chips on flights.

Forget about food carts: Qantas rolls out iPad-charging trolleys for new in-flight entertainment

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Add silverware to the list of things that international airlines are better at than the U.S.

It shouldn’t be too much to ask for clean non-plastic utensils that actually cut through butter, but the only American airline to make the list is Virgin with its European role model.

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Qantas renews agreements with Sabre, Amadeus, and Galileo

Although its contracts were up this year, where else is there to go?

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Oneworld supports members’ deals with airlines outside the alliance

Oneworld is the smallest of global airline alliances so it needs to be flexible in allowing airlines like Qantas to form strategic relationships outside the group to foster growth in the long run.

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Qantas pilots get a new right-hand man: Boeing’s flight performance app on iPad

Qantas loves the iPad: It’s placing an iPad in the hand every passenger, flight attendant, and pilot, who will use the new Boeing app to double check aircraft settings and flight progression.

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Dubai is the real winner in Qantas Airways’ deal with Emirates

In addition to cutting British Airways out of a route into Australia, the move Dubai also cuts Singapore out of long-haul routes between Europe and Australia.

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How Gulf airlines will change everything about international air travel

Emirates' president offers the best Skift Take: “The international airline community needs to align itself to what is going on in the 21st century, not what was going on in the back end of the 20th century.”

How Gulf airlines will change everything about international air travel

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British Airways seeks new Asian partners after Qantas deal ends

Does this mean BA will run into the arms of Qatar Airways, the only mid-east giant left after Qantas-Emirates, Virgin-Etihad?

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What the Emirates and Qantas partnership means for passengers

What does it mean for passengers? The ability to book seats and combine frequent flier points on flights by either airline, stopovers in Dubai instead of Singapore, and no more Qantas flights to Frankfurt.