Jetstar has opened a pay-per-use lounge at Auckland Airport’s domestic terminal.
Passengers travelling on Jetstar’s domestic network can purchase entry to the Akarana Lounge to enjoy free food and beverages, as well as big-screen entertainment and business facilities including workstation areas, free Wi-Fi access and computer terminals. If booked online the charge is $9.99 a person [...]
A PASSENGER has revealed her fear at being stuck on a hot plane with 116 other people while a pilot attempted unsuccessfully to start it.
The incident occurred on board flight JQ843 from Hamilton Island to Sydney at 1:50pm on Friday.
Traveller Lepa Flaiban said passengers were stuck on the hot, stuffy A320 aircraft while the pilot [...]
British group Rolls-Royce says it has won a large chunk of a multi-billion-dollar engine order from Jetstar Airways, the discount carrier offshoot of Qantas.
‘Rolls-Royce, the global power systems company, has won a share of an order from Jetstar Airways for V2500 engines to power up to 90 Airbus A320 family aircraft,’ the London-listed company said [...]
SYDNEY (Dow Jones)–Qantas Airways Ltd. (QAN.AU) discount carrier Jetstar said Thursday it will use International Aero Engines V2500 jet engine to power up to 90 more Airbus aircraft it will operate, in a supply and service deal worth US$3.5 billion.
In a joint statement, Jetstar and IAE said the engine purchase agreement for 50 A320 [...]
JETSTAR will today cement its relationship with US-based International Aero Engines through a $US3.5 billion ($3.8bn) deal to supply and maintain engines for its A320 aircraft.
The Qantas offshoot will confirm a $US1.5bn deal to buy the V2500 SelectOne engine for its fleet of 50 additional A320s destined for service in Australia, New Zealand and Singapore.
The [...]
A GROUP of Jetstar passengers stranded for two days on the island resort of Phuket after their plane had two unrelated mechanical problems are due back in Sydney today after the airline sent another aircraft to pick them up.
The 290 passengers were due to leave for Sydney on Monday but were stranded, initially by a [...]
Qantas says it is confident that two senior employees currently prevented from leaving Vietnam have done nothing wrong
Vietnamese authorities prevented Jetstar Pacific chief operating officer Daniela Marsilli and chief financial officer Tristan Freeman from returning to Australian on December 19 over allegations that the company made huge losses on fuel markets.
Alan Joyce, chief executive of [...]
Happy New Year, everyone!
Tomorrow, AirAsia and Jetstar are about to announce a new joint venture that would help them to save costs. There is still little information about what they plan to do, with the usual sources remaining rather tight-lipped. What we know is that it will likely involve some cooperation on routes and maybe [...]
A number of Qantas and Jetstar engineers are walking off the job on Thursday over a pay and condition dispute.
The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) said a small group of heavy maintenance engineers from Sydney, Brisbane and Avalon could strike for up to five business days, with more industrial action planned [...]
Qantas spokeswoman Deborah Hutton appeared to forget the golden rule about not biting the hand that feeds you yesterday when she tweeted about her frustration with Jetstar – Qantas’s upstart sibling.
“Jetstar nightmares: queues as long as Tigers [sic] biggest drive and then I get whacked $180 for the priviledge [sic] of taking my Callaways!”
Hutton tweeted [...]
