Qantas Airways is primarily an airline company that provides passenger and cargo air transportation services. Recently, Qantas has been impacted by space industry activities, specifically delays to their flights between Australia and South Africa due to falling debris from SpaceX rocket launches. Qantas is working with SpaceX to refine the timing and areas of rocket re-entries to minimize disruptions. The airline is also upgrading its aircraft with satcom and avionics to enable e-enabled flight operations.
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Jetstar Airways is a subsidiary of Qantas.
Qantas also uses Viasat for in-flight connectivity.
Peter Hunter was a Qantas 747 pilot.
Qantas captain Peter Hunter regularly flew a 747 from Sydney to Los Angeles and back in the late 1990s.
Qantas Airways uses high-speed Viasat satellite connectivity with Teledyne’s GroundLink avionics software across its domestic fleet of Boeing 737 and Airbus A330 aircraft with Wi-Fi to stream information over the Viasat system.
NBN is allowing Viasat to use the Ka-band Sky Muster satellites to provide inflight Wi-Fi to Qantas Airways.
Establishing Melbourne as ViaSat’s Asia-Pacific headquarters is intended to enable ViaSat to build on commitments to existing customers including nbn™ and Qantas.
Qantas, ViaSat, and nbn conducted in-flight Wi-Fi tests on the trial aircraft in preparation to launch a production system later in 2017.
On 2017-04-07 Qantas, working with ViaSat Inc. and nbn, turned on fast, free, gate-to-gate in-flight Wi-Fi on a ViaSat-equipped Boeing 737-800 aircraft.
Qantas’s upgraded inflight Wi-Fi offers speeds up to 10 times faster than conventional inflight Wi-Fi.
Qantas will offer video and audio streaming to customers on Wi-Fi enabled domestic flights starting when the service is switched on its first domestic aircraft in late February 2017.
The rest of Qantas’s domestic Boeing 737 and Airbus A330 fleet will receive the faster Wi-Fi connection from mid-2017 onwards.
Qantas installed ViaSat satellite-receiving equipment on its first 737 to be Wi-Fi enabled in November 2016.