Qantas has announced it will cut its planned domestic flight capacity by another 10 per cent through to the end of March, due to Western Australia’s delayed border reopening.
Alliance Airlines has commenced tiller inspections across its Fokker F100 fleet, after a report by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau found a damaged tiller to be the cause of a taxiing runway excursion.
The Flight Attendants Association of Australia has called out Qantas’ decision to terminate its enterprise agreement with its international cabin crew without entertaining other means of negotiation or mediation.
Qantas has accused the Flight Attendant's Association of Australia (FAAA) of running "a scare campaign" and claimed it has "continually misrepresented the facts", as the airline looks to terminate its enterprise agreement with its long haul cabin crew.
It comes after Tonga's Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai underwater volcano erupted on 15 January, prompting tsunami warnings and evacuation orders of much of the Pacific Islands.
Qantas has announced it will reduce flight capacity by over 30 per cent from January through to March, in order to "better match travel demand" amid Australia's ongoing Omicron outbreak.