Category: Qantas

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

Qantas has begun its $250 million cabin refurbishment program for nine of its Boeing 747-400s, with each aircraft to be fitted with new, Airbus A380 style seats and inflight entertainment systems by the end of next year. The 747 refit project will see seats, electrical wiring, fittings, galleys and inflight entertainment stripped from the aircraft

Qantas and the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) have held ‘conciliation talks’ at Fair Work Australia today. Qantas requested the hearing by the workplace relations tribunal in an attempt to settle its long running dispute with AIPA, which represents the airline’s 1650 long haul pilots. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members.

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has rejected as a conspiracy and a “ludicrous suggestion” claims that Qantas was subsidising Jetstar to make its low cost carrier’s profit figures look good at the expense of its mainline operations. In parliament last night independent Senator Nick Xenophon said the airline’s assertion its international operations were losing money needed