Air Travel

Buckle up for Australian Traveller’s ultimate air travel guide—uncover how to find cheap flights, survive long-hauls, conquer jet lag, know your cancellation rights, and enjoy smoother journeys.

Highlights

Australia

11 expert tips to beat jet lag every time

How do travel professionals and experts beat jet lag? Steve Madgwick talks to a doctor, a former long-haul flight engineer and a travel professional to see how they suggest to combat it.

Australia

10 ways you can see Australia on wheel and wing

We’ve rounded up the best ways to traverse the country on road, off-road and from the air: from the exhilarating to the epicurean and sometimes both at once.

Australia

Plane bad behaviour – a flight attendant’s confessions

Manners can often disappear above the clouds. We chat to a flight attendant on the frontline of bad behaviour to find out what causes mile-high anxiety.

Reflection on Lake Eyre, by Peter Elfes.

Outback South Australia

Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre – the where, what, when and how

The often dry Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre is an outback enigma, famous for its rare and beautiful floodscapes. A scenic flight over Australia’s largest salt lake is near the top of the outback bucket list so here is everything you need to know: where and when to go, how to get there and just what you’ll see on a scenic flight – wet or dry.

Australia

Your rights in a flight delay: the plane facts

Australian Traveller's Steve Madgwick talks to Julia Lines from passenger rights group Airline Customer Advocate to get the low-down about your rights when your plane/flight is delayed or cancelled (in Australia).

Australia

Runway success – the Qantas uniform evolution

Qantas is the most on-time domestic airline of the decade* – but we’d say it’s their other runway success that’s been the real star. We asked the man behind the current uniform, designer Martin Grant, to share his favourite looks from Qantas’ 94-year-old wardrobe.