Category: Qantas

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Qantas this week is celebrating the 60th anniversary of its commencement of first trans-Pacific services between Australia and the USA. The first service – on May 15 1954 – was operated by a Lockheed Super Constellation which flew from Sydney to San Francisco via Fiji, Canton Island and Hawaii, before proceeding on to Vancouver. The

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Qantas will offer its Boeing 767 and 747 pilots voluntary redundancy as the airline retires older aircraft from its fleet. The Australian and International Pilots Association, which represents Qantas pilots, says it will seek a “fair and reasonable” redundancy package for those affected. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a

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When flight QF78 touched down at Perth Airport shortly after 1130pm on Sunday night it represented the end of Qantas’s regularly scheduled international service from the Western Australian capital. The flight from Singapore – which up to now was Qantas’s sole daily international destination from Perth – has been cut as part of efforts to

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Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told the Macquarie Australia Conference in Sydney that the airline is on track to achieve $800 million in savings by June 2015, and the planned $2 billion in savings by early 2017. The airline will have reduced its full-time employee numbers by 2,200 by the end of June this year,

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Qantas will operate the Airbus A380 on its services between Sydney and Dallas-Fort Worth (DFW) from September 29 this year, as part of network changes that include reducing Sydney-Hong Kong A380 services and the retiming of Melbourne-Dubai-London flights. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the

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Trade Minister Andrew Robb has said he will raise the issue of foreign investment in Qantas when he mets with Emirates Airline chairman Sheikh Ahmed Bin Saeed al-Maktoum in Dubai this week. “I’m sure he’ll raise it if I don’t. But I will explicitly mention it,” Minister Robb was reported as saying. This content is

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