Qantas CEO Faces the Music – As the annual general meeting gets under way at 11.00 (AEDT) today baggage handlers, catering workers and ground staff are walking off the job. CEO Alan Joyce said the Transport Workers Union’s actions have disrupted 10,000 passengers and apologised to all the passengers who will be delayed today as [...]
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Qantas A380′s Return To Service – Qantas’s superjumbo Airbus A380 fleet will progressively return to the skies, starting on Saturday, the airline said today. The airline grounded the world’s largest passenger jet for 19 days following a mid-air uncontained engine explosion, Following action to replace the aircraft’s Rolls-Royce engines, the airline will ferry the first [...]
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Qantas Airways Still Checking A380 Engines – Qantas Airways is reviewing the way it operates its A380 planes after last week’s engine blowout, a source said on Tuesday, amid reports that it worked its Rolls-Royce engines harder than other airlines. The Australian carrier operates its A380 engines at higher thrust levels, which could result in [...]
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Qantas To Boost Domestic Flights – Qantas said it would expand its capacity by 9.6 per cent, while Jetstar would swell by up to 30 per cent this year when all the extra flights were operating. The Qantas expansion is being viewed by some industry watchers as an opportunistic move against domestic rivals Virgin Blue [...]
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QANTAS chief executive Alan Joyce says it is inevitable airfares will have to increase in 2010 from “unprecedented low levels”. He said current airfares rates are “understandable”, given forecasts the aviation industry will lose $US5.6 billion ($6.22 billion) in 2010. “I think we have had unprecedented low airfares out there because of the economic condition [...]
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