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 [...]
QANTAS is studying the possible impact on its passengers of a massive British Airways strike across Christmas and the New Year.
Hundreds of thousands of British Airways passengers around the world face a chaotic Christmas as staff strike at the airline.
Nine out of 10 BA staff voted on Monday in favour of striking from December 22 [...]
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QANTAS has moved to reassure passengers that an engineers strike would not ground flights and travellers could check departure times on mobile phones and its website.
About 200 engineers who are responsible for the airworthiness of the fleet began lawful industrial action yesterday by refusing to work overtime to supervise aircraft repairs on weekends or evenings.
The [...]
Qantas says there will be no disruption to services from strike action taken by the airline’s senior engineers.
The union is involved in a stand-off with the airline over conditions and pay.
98 per cent of the engineers have voted in favour of industrial action, claiming talks with the company had broken down.
The engineers will meet on [...]
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Qantas says it will not be grounding planes and there will be no disruption to its services from industrial action taken by the airline’s engineers.
The union representing most of Qantas’ professional engineers, the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers (APESMA), has been involved in a stand-off with the airline over conditions and pay.
On Thursday, [...]
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 [...]
