Category: Qantas

UNICEF Australia and Qantas have announced an extension of their ‘change for good’ partnership to encourage domestic passengers to donate loose change to the global children’s charity. Since it commenced on international services 23 years ago, the change for good campaign  has raised $28 million for UNICEF’s global child health, child protection and education programs.

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

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

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,