Category: Qantas

Qantas is streamlining its domestic fare structure, moving from a five to a four tiered fare system from July 7. Instead of today’s ‘Red eDeal’, ‘Super Saver’, ‘Flexi Saver’, ‘Fully Flexible’ and ‘Business’ fares, the new fare levels will comprise Red eDeal, Flexi Saver, Fully Flexible and Business. This content is available exclusively to Australian

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce says he will unveil restructuring plans for the longer term future of Qantas’s international operations on August 24 after revealing today that the airline’s international division will make a $200 million loss for the current financial year. “In FY11, Qantas International is forecast to generate a loss before interest and tax

Qantas has announced it is significantly scaling back group domestic capacity growth over the next two years, which will see it cancel or defer orders for 12 narrowbody airliners. The airline says that “in response to slower overall growth” that it now plans to grow its domestic capacity by 5.5 per cent for 2011-12, rather

Airlines have begun suspending flights to and from Perth as the ash cloud from Chile’s Puyehue-Cordon Caulle volcano  moves over Western Australia. “The northern boundary of the ash cloud which affected flights from Melbourne and Adelaide over the past 48 hours is now located over Bass Strait,” Airservices Australia said in an update this morning.