Qantas Airways has announced that it would one day like to be flying passengers to Europe via China. Speaking to reporters in Sydney, while attending the Australia Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit, chief executive at Qantas, Alan Joyce, explained that the Chinese Authorities had already approved flights from Australia to China ...
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A tribunal has heard claims that pilots working for Jetconnect, a New Zealand-based subsidiary of Qantas Airways, are being paid less than their fellow pilots in Australia. The ACTU has stepped in to a hearing in Sydney to put the pilots’ case forward and request that they are paid the ...
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The country’s two largest airlines are hoping to attract business travellers by upgrading the premium services that they offer. Traditionally Virgin Blue, the country’s number two, concentrated on it economy class passengers offering cheap deals in order to attract them away from the premium services offered by Qantas. However, since ...
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Sydney Airport has managed to secure second place behind Hong Kong International as the most efficient airport in the Asia Pacific region serving more than 15 million passengers per year. A study by the Air Transport Research Society (ATRS) also found that Perth Airport was the second most efficient airport ...
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Since Tiger Airways entered the Australian domestic airline market in November 2007, a price has been raging with rivals Qantas and Virgin Blue. Whilst this is good news for passengers who can take advantage of ever decreasing fares, it is very bad news for airline profitability.
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The creator of the flight data recorder, otherwise known as the ‘black box’, has died aged 85. Dr David Warren was inspired to come up with a data recorder capable of surviving a plane crash as he was investigating the crash of a de Havilland Comet en route to Australia ...
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An American woman suing Qantas because a three-year-old boy screamed at her on one of their aircraft has settled with the flag carrier for an undisclosed sum. Jean Barnard, a 67-year-old international business consultant, was visiting Australia in January last year when the incident occurred. Planning to travel up to ...
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A mans body has been recovered from a Billabong in Kakadu National Park in the Northern Territory just south of Darwin, Australia. The 27-year-old from Northern Ireland apparently drowned in the Malabanjbanjdju Billabong after deciding to go for a swim. The man was with a group of around 20 people ...
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Qantas has outlined details of its revamped in-flight entertainment service which will now include allowing passengers to stay glued to their seat-back screens from take-off right up until the aircraft reaches the gate. From this month the ability to watch the screens for longer will only apply to passengers on ...
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Recent political tensions between Australia and Fiji, as well as plummeting financial losses, are likely to do little to improve the chances of Qantas finding a buyer for its 46 per cent stake in the nation’s flag carrier, Air Pacific. On Monday, Fiji asked Australia’s acting high commissioner to leave ...
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