Category: Qantas

Qantas will next month begin trialling streaming inflight entertainment to Apple iPad tablet computers on a single 767-300 in domestic service. The world first six week ‘Q Streaming’ trial will run from late October through to early December and will allow passengers to view content such as movies streamed to the iPads ‘on demand’.  Each

The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has announced a series of four hour work stoppages for its Qantas workers on September 20, with up to 3800 union-aligned baggage handlers, ground staff, catering, freight and other transport employees across Australia taking action over a five per cent pay increase and various other job security concerns. Qantas has

Qantas has announced its eighth year of operating Boeing 737-800 RNP (Required Navigation Performance) flights into New Zealand’s Queenstown Airport, with over 25 million passengers transported since the airline’s introduction of the GPS based precision approach technology in 2004. “RNP is a win-win for airlines looking to reduce fuel consumption and emissions, passengers who might

Fair Work Australia has dismissed an Australian and International Airline Pilots’ Association (AIPA) application to have pilots employed by Qantas’s New Zealand based Jetconnect subsidiary brought under Australian industrial laws and arrangements. Jetconnect employs 100 New Zealand based pilots who operate Qantas’s trans Tasman 737 operations, most of whom, according to Qantas, are covered by