Category: Qantas

Qantas has appointed experienced industry veteran Hugh Davin to the new position of head of charter business to oversee the airline’s expansion into the charter and fly-in/fly-out markets. Davin was most recently managing director of Skywest, responsible for the Perth based airline’s successful charter and FIFO operations serving the WA resources industry. He joined Skywest

The Transport Workers Union (TWU) will have to pay Qantas $707,000 in compensation for snap strikes by baggage handlers at four airports in 2009. The federal court on July 22 ruled that the TWU pay Qantas the compensation, plus a $20,000 fine, with union officials fined a further $18,000, for the strike action, which it

Qantas’s regular QF63 service from Sydney to Johannesburg made a scheduled tech stop into Perth for additional fuel on July 18 as the aircraft, 747-400 VH-OJN, was carrying a spare engine under its left wing for sistership VH-OJL, which had experienced a #3 engine failure on July 16, approximately one hour into its QF64 flight

Qantas engineers will hold a “one minute work stoppage” this Friday, in order to validate its original ballot for Protected Industrial Action (PIA) before it expires on July 22. The Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) had previously cancelled nationwide strike action on July 4, following CASA’s grounding of Tiger Airways on July 1. However,