Jan. 13 (Bloomberg) — Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s biggest carrier, may keep codeshare arrangements with Japan Airlines Corp. even if the carrier defects to the rival SkyTeam airline alliance, according to analysts at Macquarie Group Ltd.
Qantas shares common flight numbers with airlines such as Air France-KLM, a member of SkyTeam, and similar arrangements may [...]
Hundreds of passengers booked on flights to the United Kingdom from Brisbane over Christmas may be affected by the planned British Airways strike, Qantas says.
BA cabin crew, protesting company restructuring and job losses, have voted in favour of a 12 -day strike from December 22 that would threaten to ruin holiday season travel plans and [...]
COSMIC rays are being considered by air safety investigators as a possible cause of a Qantas plane plunging twice in quick succession on its way from Singapore to Perth in October last year.
Air safety investigators this morning brought down their second interim report into the flight QF72 incident, which left one flight attendant and 11 [...]
Qantas planes could be grounded in coming weeks, as professional engineers consider strike action.
After seven months of failed negotiations over pay and conditions, workers have voted in favour of industrial action.
Professional engineers are the only ones who can approve significant aircraft maintenance, and any strike would cause huge flight disruptions.
Members of the union will meet [...]
QANTAS passengers face disruptions in coming weeks after professional engineers voted overwhelmingly in favour of industrial action for the first time in the airline’s history.
The stand-off with the engineers over conditions and pay is the first real test of the relationship between Qantas’ new management and its heavily unionised workforce.
Although professional engineers number only [...]
