A QANTAS flight from Los Angeles to Brisbane has been delayed by more than 12 hours because of a mechanical fault.
A Qantas spokeswoman said the pilots saw a fault indication in the cockpit after taking off from Los Angeles and decided to turn back.
A passenger said the aircraft circled off Los Angeles, dumping fuel [...]
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The former Qantas flight attendant who had mid-flight sex with British actor Ralph Fiennes in a toilet has appeared in a Melbourne court on assault charges.
Lisa Robertson, 41, was charged earlier this year with offences that include intentionally causing injury after an alleged incident outside a St Kilda restaurant.
Robertson was sacked by Qantas after [...]
Two flights by Qantas-owned airlines are under investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau after separate safety incidents.
Two Qantas pilots have been stood down following an incident at Sydney Airport in which they failed to lower their plane’s landing gear as it approached the runway.
The incident, confirmed by the airline today, occurred on a [...]
QANTAS continues to suffer from a deterioration in trading conditions, forcing it to lower fares further from what are already rock-bottom levels to stimulate demand for travel.
In the midst of the worst downturn of the jet age, the airline yesterday released its latest monthly figures that show yields – or average fares – were again [...]
Qantas says it is working with the manufacturers of the Airbus A-380 to fix a flight stability problem with one of the super jumbos it has on order.
The airline’s fifth A-380 was due to arrive at the end of this month but its arrival has now been put off until December.
Qantas says the delay is [...]
QANTAS will have to wait until December for the delivery of its next two Airbus A380s, after encountering flight stability problems with one of the superjumbos, which had been expected to start flying on the US route next month.
The airline confirmed the 450-seat jet would need to undergo further tests at the Airbus factory in [...]
A JETSTAR flight attendant who made attempts to contact a female teenage passenger through social networking site Facebook has been stood down.
Jetstar spokesman Simon Westaway said the Melbourne-based flight attendant obtained the 15-year-old passenger’s name from a boarding pass and tried to add her as a friend on Facebook.
After an investigation the airline spoke with the flight [...]
The international flight attendants’ union is trying to strike a wage deal with Virgin Blue’s long-haul airline, V Australia, whose crews have common-law contracts inferior to those at Qantas.
Officials from the international arm of the Flight Attendants Association of Australia (FAAA) met Virgin executives in Brisbane last week for the first time.
The talks come as [...]
The number of passengers carried on Qantas group flights was 6 per cent higher in August than in the same month last year, thanks to the heavy discounting of tickets particularly at its budget offshoot Jetstar.
The Qantas group carried 3.4 million passengers in August, compared with 3.2 million in the same month a year earlier, [...]
