Category: Qantas

The Australian Workers Union has described Qantas’s decision to send heavy maintenance work for its remaining 747s offshore as “short sighted, lazy and unnecessary.” In a January 21 statement, the AWU said options still exist for the airline to perform the maintenance locally. “Even given Qantas’ intention to move 747 maintenance out of Avalon, the

In an op-ed piece published in Fairfax newspapers and the Qantas media page on January 24 entitled ‘Armchair Experts in the Cockpit’, Qantas CFO Gareth Evans has taken aim at some of the airline’s detractors, and has restated the Group will not relinquish its 65 percent domestic market share ‘line in the sand’. In particular,

Qantas’s move to shift flights to Hobart from Qantas mainline 737s to QantasLink operated 717s, with the attendant decision to cut 35 jobs at Hobart airport, has sparked an outcry, even as the move means increased flight frequencies and dropping Q400 turboprop services to the Tasmanian capital. From April Qantas will transition its Melbourne and

Moody’s has joined Standard & Poor’s in downgrading Qantas’s credit rating from an investment grade to a ‘junk’ rating, potentially leading to increased borrowing costs for Australia’s largest airline. The Moody’s downgrade comes as little surprise, given it had announced it was reviewing its grading status for Qantas following the airline’s December revelations it is on