An emergency airworthiness directive was issued affecting many Boeing 737 aircraft by the US Federal Aviation Administration on Friday.
One of the aircraft, a Ryanair 737-800, had experienced serious vibrations and had to make an unscheduled landing in Belgium. Inspection found extensive damage to the tail.
Qantas and Virgin Blue are among the airlines which fly Boeing [...]
Jetstar will increase it current passenger capacity by seven per cent, and says it still has plenty of growth opportunities.
Qantas’ low fare carrier plans to add 700,000 new domestic seats starting from next year and will be creating new routes in the domestic market.
The airline also announced that it will introduce 77 new return flights [...]
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 [...]
FRUSTRATED passengers have been stranded in Sydney for more than 26 hours following problems with two Qantas A380s.
Around 120 passengers on flight QF31 experienced the lengthy delay on the Sydney-Singapore-London service.
The flight was originally delayed for over five hours due to a hydraulics issue, a Qantas spokesperson said.
A replacement aircraft also experienced technical problems, forcing it to be [...]
Anxious pilot restrained as Qantas passenger jet landed
THE pilot of a jet carrying 177 passengers was suffering from anxiety and stress when he was restrained from flying his plane as it landed at Melbourne Airport last year.
The captain of the Qantas Boeing 767-300 aircraft reported feeling unwell soon after take-off from Auckland, New Zealand, [...]
The number of passengers carried on Qantas group flights was six per cent higher in August than in the corresponding month last year.
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 year earlier.
This was despite total capacity, measured by available seat [...]
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, the Qantas group carried 3.4 million passengers in August, compared to 3.2 million a year earlier.
This [...]
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, [...]
Allen Jasson, a passenger who was banned from a Qantas flight in December for a T-Shirt depicting President Bush as the “World’s Number One Terrorist” (SN reported), has been banned once more trying to fly from Melbourne to London.
In the December incident, Jasson changed his shirt when it was challenged as offensive. This time, [...]
