Qantas says that it expects its underlying profit before tax for the financial year ending June 30 to come in at $50-$100 million as a result of lower yields and higher fuel costs. Qantas said that it expects yield during the six months to June 30 to grow by 0.5-1.0 per cent, compared with previous
Qantas staff will be getting some new threads after the airline chose Australian designer Martin Grant to refashion its uniforms. The new uniforms are expected to be ready by 2014 and will replace the existing design by Peter Morrissey, which has been in use since 2003. The Qantas uniform has been redesigned nine times since
Qantas has withdrawn its four directors from the board of Fijian carrier Air Pacific in another sign of deteriorating relations with Fiji’s military government. Qantas has been trying to sell its 46 per cent stake in the money losing carrier for several years but has been unable to agree on terms, with Fiji’s government claiming
The ATSB has concluded its investigation into a March 1 2011 stickshaker incident on a QantasLink flight, finding that the aircraft’s computer activated the stall warning on the basis of conflicting inputs from the flight crew. According to the ATSB report, the captain of the Bombardier Dash 8-300 turned off the icing protection switch as
Airbus chief operating officer – customers John Leahy has expressed disappointment at Qantas’s recent decision to defer delivery of two more Airbus A380s. ”I wasn’t surprised, I think disappointed is more the word I would use,” Leahy said when asked of Qantas’s decision to defer delivery of two A380s due to be handed over to
Qantas and Jetstar will add nearly 900,000 seats per year to the country’s most competitive east coast routes in a move squarely aimed at rival Virgin Australia. The increases comes amid a spate of news-making announcement by the airline in recent days, including layoffs of maintenance workers and a restructuring that split Qantas’s domestic and