Dubai Airport will become the hub for flights between Europe and Australia. There Southern airline Qantas has announced that it has concluded a global alliance with Emirates to transfer the hubs of its flights to the Old Continent from Singapore to Dubai. The agreement has a duration initial of 10 years and is part of a turnaround plan by Qantas which last month announced its first losses since privatization in 1995. Qantas is abandoning its XNUMX-year alliance with British Airways.
Among the main novelties there is the increase in daily flights from Sydney and Melbourne to London via Dubai: in total, the two companies will operate 98 flights a week from April between Australia and Dubai. Qantas will also end its XNUMX-year agreement with British Airways on its flights to London, the so-called 'kangaroo route'.
The loss of Qantas, from 205 million euros, it was caused by rising fuel costs, increased competition and the eurozone crisis. But, thanks to theI agree with Emiretes, according to some analysts, the Australian company could earning over A$90 million annually, which would help it move forward with its restructuring plan.
The agreement, which will have to be approved by the supervisory authorities, “is much more than a simple sharing of codes or common services. This is the largest collaborative project ever undertaken by Qantas with any other airline.", said the CEO of the Australian company Alan Joyce.
