Air New Zealand Increases Capacity on North America to Auckland Routes

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Air New Zealand is increasing its capacity between Auckland and North American destinations, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Vancouver. The move comes in response to Qantas’s recent announcement that they would withdraw from the Los Angeles to Auckland route, effective May 6, 2012. The airline will move from twelve to fourteen return services per week [...]

A Sneak Peak Of V Austrailia

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V AUSTRALIA If you haven’t been to Australia, now is the time to start planning your trip thanks to last year’s historic Open Skies agreement, which allowed competition to go up against Qantas and United who once dominated this lucrative route. New service from V Australia and Delta (beginning in July) has slashed the notoriously high prices. SNEAK PEAK On Friday, I was invited to [...]

John Travolta’s Plane

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Back in October 2008 I was fortunate enough to be one of the 150 guests to go on an exclusive two-hour “VIP” flight of Qantas’ A380. It included Qantas ambassador John Travolta who had his Boeing 707 plane parked next to the world’s biggest commercial aircraft. Both were in front of LAX’s Flight Path Learning Center [...]