Qantas operates a fleet of Airbus A330, Airbus A380, Boeing 737 and Boeing 787 making a total of 125 aircraft. This list excludes subsidiaries Jetstar, QantasLink and Qantas Freight.
The flag carrier of Australia, Qantas operates a mainline fleet of nearly 130 aircraft. Roughly 60% of this collection consists of the Boeing 737-800 with the remainder comprising a mix of Boeing and Airbus widebodies - including the behemoth Airbus A380 superjumbo.
Far more common on Australia's domestic routes are the Airbus A330-200 and A330-300 aircraft. Qantas has long put them on transcontinental flights between Australia's east coast capital cities and Perth. Right now, the A330s are alternating with the 737s flying Sydney - Perth - Sydney, and Melbourne - Perth - Sydney.
Qantas has today unveiled the entire cabin design of its specially designed Airbus A350s that will fly direct from Sydney to New York and London from late 2025 and is set to conquer the final frontier of long-haul travel.
The global A350 fleet had completed more than 1,025,000 flights on more than 1000 routes without accidents. It succeeds the A340 and competes against Boeing's large long-haul twinjets: the Boeing 787, the Boeing 777, and its successor, the 777X.
Qantas and Emirates are preparing to phase out the mighty Airbus A380, the plane which revolutionised commercial air travel with fancy first class suites, inflight showers, bars and lounges.
Qantas has confirmed a new order with Airbus that will introduce 12 A350-1000 Project Sunrise aircraft into its fleet, along with 40 new A220-300s and A321XLRs that will replace aging 737 and 717 aircraft currently being operated by the Australian airline.
Fitted with state-of-the-art technology to ensure a smoother flight, every seat has been designed to offer the ultimate comfort for long-haul flyers.
Boeing and its 180-seat 737 MAX have been dealt a hammer blow after long-time customer Qantas abandoned the Seattle aerospace giant in favour of Europe's Airbus and its A320neo family of narrow-body jets as part of its Project Winton fleet refurbishment.
For the first two decades of the 21st century, Qantas' international fleet was largely comprised of the A380s, Boeing 747-400s, medium-haul A330s and, more latterly, the Dreamliners. The Boeing 777 never pulled up at a Qantas gate. Qantas said it decided the 777 was too big for domestic routes. It was right about that.
In terms of comfort, the leg room is only one inch (or 2.5 cm) more on Qantas than Jetstar however the seat recline is roughly double. The actual seat width is virtually the same. The Qantas A330 offers a comfortable 2-4-2 seating configuration across the plane where as the 787 is fitted out as 3-3-3.
UBS says the average age of Qantas' fleet has grown from 7.7 years in 2014 to 13.6 in 2022, whereas the average age of aircraft around the world was between 12.4 and 13 years. Ms Hudson said the new planes would deliver a “step-change” in earnings at Qantas, allowing it to afford capital expenditure and returns.
Qantas operates a fleet of Airbus A330, Airbus A380, Boeing 737 and Boeing 787 making a total of 125 aircraft. This list excludes subsidiaries Jetstar, QantasLink and Qantas Freight.
Qantas will replace its Boeing 717s with Airbus A220s.
Qantas has announced that it is bolstering its fleet of Dreamliners, with plans to add a trio of 787s to its line-up in June. With the additional three aircraft, Qantas' fleet of Boeing 787-9s will be strengthened to a total of 14 aircraft.
The B777 model is the larger of the two aircraft and has a higher occupancy than the B787 Dreamliner. The largest variant of the B777 holds 426 in a two-class configuration, while the equivalent B787 occupies 330 passengers in the same configuration.
Airbus A380: Summary. The 787 and A380 widebody aircraft are, physically, quite a different aircraft. The much larger A380, with its two decks, is heavier, wider, longer, and carries more passengers than the B787 variants.
The 787 Dreamliner commercial jets that Boeing Co. builds in North Charleston are among the world's safest in terms of accidents, a new report shows, with no fatalities or events involving extensive damage during more than a decade of flights.
A fully-fledged Qantas A380 Captain earns about US$327,000 annually. Stood down A380 Captains are now picking up about US$370 per week via a government subsidy program that runs out in a few months time. In addition, The Sydney Morning Herald reports a further 200 Qantas pilots are also on leave without pay.
For some airlines, the A380 offered too much capacity, while for Emirates, the airline can't get enough of the plane. Unfortunately for Emirates (and us passengers), the days of the Airbus A380 are numbered. Airbus stopped A380 production in 2021, as there weren't sufficient orders to keep production going.
So why has Airbus decided to kill it? The main reason the company will halt production of A380 after 12 years, from 2021, is the low number of planes sold. “In the end, you have to face facts, and we could see that we were building A380s faster than people were ordering them,” Lange says.
Aerodynamics. Talking of the wings, they play a massive part in the aerodynamic gains in the A350 design. What makes them so special is the way they've been designed to morph in flight, changing shape for maximum aerodynamic efficiency throughout the different phases of the journey.
While both aircraft have much quieter cabins than their competitors, the A350 definitely feels a lot quieter than the 787, no matter which part of the plane you're sitting in. The A350 is in fact the quietest twin-engined aircraft in the skies.
At the monitor locations around Heathrow, the analysis has shown that the Airbus A350 is significantly quieter than the Airbus A330, Airbus A340 and Boeing 777. The A350 is on average up to 6 dB quieter on departure than the A330 and 777, and up to 9 dB quieter than the A340.