Singapore and Qantas Airways Find Cracks in Planes – Singapore Airlines and Qantas Airways said on Friday they discovered cracks on the wing ribs of their Airbus A380s, but said the cracks pose no threat to safety and repairs have been carried out. The remarks came after Airbus said on Thursday that engineers discovered minor [...]
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Qantas Check-in Breaks Down – Qantas passengers were issued with handwritten boarding passes at airports across the world this morning after the company’s check-in system malfunctioned. A Qantas spokeswoman confirmed the meltdown occurred at 6.40am and had impacted on the airline’s ability to print boarding passes. “We have had issues printing boarding passes at our [...]
Qantas Hands Out Free Tickets – Embattled Australian carrier Qantas said it would hand out 100,000 free air tickets in a bid to win back passengers after the shock two-day grounding of its global fleet. Some 70,000 travellers were stranded in 22 cities across the world when Qantas CEO Alan Joyce grounded the airline last [...]
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Strategic Airlines Launches in Australia – In what can only be seen as a strategic move Strategic Airlines has announced a press conference today [Thursday November 3, 2011] to announce what it says is Australia’s new low cost airline, Air Australia. A re-branding of Strategic Airlines was on the cards for the end of the [...]
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Qantas to Resume Flights – Civil Aviation Safety Authority spokesman Peter Gibson said the agency had given Qantas the OK to resume flying. The safety authority’s decision means the “Flying Kangaroo,” as the Australian flag carrier is known, can restart flights by Monday afternoon, as Qantas CEO Alan Joyce had predicted earlier in the day. [...]
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