Category: Qantas

The rumours and speculation are reaching fever pitch ahead of tomorrow’s Qantas half-yearly results announcement where the embattled airline group is planning to reveal how it will strip $2 billion in costs out of its business over the next three years and raise cash through asset sales. Job cuts in the range of 3,000 to

Qantas has operated its last 737-400 revenue flight, marking the end of scheduled Boeing 737-300/-400 ‘classic’ passenger services in Australia. Qantas 737-476 VH-TJS Jabiru operated the final service, QF819 from Canberra to Melbourne, on Sunday afternoon, the 48 minute flight departing at 17:23 and touching down 48 minutes later at 18:11. An Airservices ARFF monitor

Qantas has been granted the Sydney to Moree licence by Transport NSW for a four year period from March 22. The airline has been the wester NSW centre on an interim basis since the collapse of Brindabella Airlines in December, and will use 36-seat Dash 8 Q200 and 50-seat Q300 equipment on the 12 return

Usually mild-mannered Virgin Australia CEO John Borghetti has come out swinging in an interview about Qantas’s bid to receive a debt guarantee from the federal government. Speaking on ABC radio on February 18, Borghetti labelled proposals by the government to offer a debt guarantee to Qantas as “bizarre”, adding that “if it wasn’t so serious