Category: Airlines

Qantas Group CEO Alan Joyce has announced that 5,000 jobs full-time equivalent job positions will be cut from the company by FY17 as part of a restructure of the airline designed to save up to $2 billion over three years. Joyce told a media conference on Thursday morning that  the job cuts would be drawn

Qantas has recorded an underlying loss before tax of $252 million and a statutory loss after tax of $235 million for the six months to December 31, a figure in line with recent guidance provided by the airline. The loss comes on the back of $7.9 billion in revenue, a drop of four per cent

Jetstar has begun operating the 787 on the trans-Tasman on an interim basis through until March 28 as it continues to build crew experience on the new Boeing twinjet. The Qantas Group’s low-cost carrier will operate the 335-seat 787-8 three times weekly between Melbourne and Auckland (on Mondays, Wedensdays and Fridays), with VH-VKA landing in Auckland

The Virgin Independent Pilots Association (VIPA) has echoed comments by airline CEO John Borghetti last week criticising a government proposal to offer a debt guarantee to Qantas. In a February 26 statement, VIPA questioned Qantas’s “ongoing capacity dumping” in order to maintain its 65 per cent ‘line in the sane’ market share, saying Qantas “added