New Zealand travellers flying on Australian airline Qantas could be grounded by a strike by Qantas engineers from January 9.
Qantas’ planes require clearance by an engineer before they can take off, but with about 1700 engineers engaging in four-hour rolling stoppages they will be grounded, the Dominion Post newspaper reports.
The workers are demanding a 5 [...]
QANTAS may ditch first-class seats on some short international routes to increase revenue, says chief executive Alan Joyce.
During his first year as Qantas chief Mr Joyce had had to deal with the global financial crisis, failed merger talks with British Airways and swine flu, which cost the airline $90 million in business from Japan.
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Who doesn’t dream of one day flying to New Zealand, Aotearoa – Country of the Long White Cloud?
On the other side of the world, opposite of Europe, New Zealand’s North and South Islands stretch over a length of 1600 kilometres.
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Qantas is Australia’s largest airline, and together with British Airways fly to Asia, the USA, UK and Europe.
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Qantas says it remains ‘bullish’ about the future despite a struggling aviation sector.
‘We are still planning to buy 160 aircraft over ten years,’ Qantas chief Alan Joyce told a conference in Canberra on Tuesday night.
‘We have an investment pipeline of more than $7 billion over the coming three years alone.’
The airline is facing a fight [...]
The number of passengers carried on Qantas group flights was six per cent higher in August than in the corresponding month last year, thanks to a boost in numbers at budget offshoot Jetstar.
According to figures released by the airline on Tuesday, the Qantas group carried 3.4 million passengers in August, compared to 3.2 million a [...]
Qantas has dismissed an Australian survey that rates it the worst international airline.
The survey of 4000 subscribers to consumer magazine Choice also found Qantas’s domestic service was outshone by all rivals except its low-cost subsidiary Jetstar.
However, Qantas has cited a larger, international poll as proof its customers are satisfied.
The national carrier would not comment directly [...]
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Flying ‘roo Qantas can’t catch a break at the moment. Sure, there was brief excitement when their first A380 plane arrived in Sydney, but it didn’t take long for everyone to find something to complain about again.
This time it was an airport evacuation of the Qantas terminal at Brisbane Monday afternoon, all because three Qantas [...]
AUSSIE AIRLINE Qantas has decided to censor an anti-online censorship advert on its flights.
Online activist group GetUp’s had created an advert called “Censordyne” and planned to run the parody ad on all Qantas flights into Canberra to ensure it was seen by politicians and their staff members.
Simon Sheikh, chief executive of GetUp, told the Sydney [...]
