Qantas partnership: health and wellness in the air
Airline travel and health – before, during and after long-haul flights
Our partnership with Qantas will develop an integrated, holistic and evidence-based approach to airline travel and health.
Our researchers are working with Qantas to provide integrated health and wellbeing advice, education and research in a range of areas that have the potential to dramatically improve the experience of long-haul flying, including:
- jetlag mitigation, circadian entrainment, sleep and light exposure
- food and beverage services
- physical activity
- transit lounge design
- evaluation and experimental design
- education and professional training.
As Qantas prepares to launch its transformative Project Sunrise, it’s working with the University’s multidisciplinary Charles Perkins Centre on a unique evidence-based approach to improve customers' experience of long-haul flights.
Already, the University's partnership with Qantas has led to the development of a 4D planning system designed by our academics that reduces CO2 emissions and fuel costs with flight path optimisation.
This collaborative partnership between Qantas and our researchers is investigating ways to optimise environmental and bahavioural factors, with the aim of improving the customer experience before, during and after long-haul travel.
- Professor Margaret Allman-Farinelli
- Professor Emeritus Adrian Bauman
- Professor William Bellew
- Dr Yu Sun Bin
- Professor Corinne Caillaud
- Professor Philip de Chazal
- Professor Peter Cistulli
- Professor Stephen Colagiuri
- Dr Svetlana Postnova
- Professor Stephen Simpson
- Professor Emmanuel Stamatakis
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