Qantas has made sweeping changes to its senior executive ranks with the heads of its Domestic and International operations heading for the departure gate as part of a major restructure. Lyell Strambi, who runs Qantas Domestic, and the head of Qantas International Simon Hickey will leave the company once the new structure is in place
Qantas is looking to further improve its aircraft utilisation rates, which it says are still below those of major competitors. As part of its ‘transformation’ program to cut costs and increase efficiency Qantas has introduced a number of measures to improve aircraft availability, which has allowed it to introduce a number of new routes (such as Brisbane-Tokyo announced on Tuesday) and even look to
Qantas has begun rolling out new check-in functionality where passengers are sent a text message to their mobile device inviting them to check-in online. “It means for the millions of smartphone users flying with Qantas, just by opening a text message or an email link, they’re only a few clicks away from completing check-in and
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says he wants to order the Boeing 787, but only after the airline has paid down debt and strengthened its balance sheet. “I want to order it, I think everybody at Qantas wants to have them, they’d love those aircraft to come in,” Joyce said in Brisbane on Tuesday, the day after Qantas
Qantas is set to begin new four times weekly services between Brisbane and Tokyo Narita from August 1 2015, and has announced it will shift its daily Sydney-Tokyo flights from Narita to Haneda from July 31 2015. And a further three times weekly service to Narita, operating on alternate days to the Brisbane flights, will
Qantas’s international operations are expected to make a positive contribution to the airline’s return to profitability in the first half of 2014/15 as the carrier makes “rapid progress” with its three-year, $2 billion cost cutting program. Despite the brighter outlook for the long-suffering international arm, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the airline will maintain