Category: Qantas

Steering problems forced a Qantas A380 to twice abandon takeoff from London Heathrow Airport this weekend. Flight QF10 was scheduled to depart London at 9:30 pm local time on Saturday but had to return to a maintenance bay twice after pilots identified a problem while taxiing. Accounts posted by passengers on Twitter said the superjumbo

Qantas says a trial run of its wi-fi based Q Streaming inflight entertainment system has met with an extremely positive response as the carrier finalises plans to deploy the system across its wider fleet. Developed by Lufthansa Systems, the wireless IFE gives passengers access to more than 200 hours of programming streamed directly to iPads

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce used his appearance before a Senate committee on Monday to hit back at proposed changes to the Qantas Sale Act that he said would force the company to cut routes and either sell or shutter budget subsidiary Jetstar. The union backed changes, introduced by independent Senator Nick Xenophon and co-sponsored by

Qantas will raise surcharges and fares in response to high fuel prices and the impact of carbon taxes in Europe and Australia. Under the plan, which goes into effect on February 15, fuel surcharges on international flights will go up by as much as $60 for one-way tickets to the US and Europe, raising the