Category: Qantas

QantasLink will shed four Bombardier Q300 turboprop aircraft, close down its Perth Q400 pilot base and make its remaining fleet work harder in a bid to cut costs. While the changes were expected to impact staff, a Qantas spokesman said job losses were not expected as the airline would “manage the changes through leave burn, leave without pay

Qantas’s “transformation” plan to return the airline group to profitability via 5,000 job cuts, aircraft retirements and order deferrals, and network consolidation is tracking better than first hoped, chief financial officer Gareth Evans says. “The transformation is key for us, ensuring that we execute and implement the transformation goals that we have set, and it’s

Qantas’s first “retro” painted aircraft, 737-800 VH-XZP has arrived in Sydney at the end of its delivery flight from Seattle. The aircraft’s modified retro livery is based on that first introduced on Qantas’s first 747s in 1971, most notably featuring the flying kangaroo on the tail and the ochre cheatline along the passenger windows, and

Qantas will consider its options for new narrobody aircraft in the ”medium term”, says chief financial officer Gareth Evans. Evans was speaking in Seattle where Qantas had just taken delivery of its 75th and last Boeing 737-800 on order, the “retro” painted VH-XZP. That aircraft’s delivery means Qantas mainline currently has no outstanding firm aircraft