Category: Qantas

Qantas is to resume direct services between Australia and Tokyo from April 19, after having routed services via Hong Kong to allow for crew rest there following concerns about radiation levels after the earthquake and tsunami which crippled Japan’s Fukushima nuclear powerplant last month. “Qantas has been working closely with the Australian government, as well

Qantas is facing industrial action from its maintenance engineers, after a postal ballot of Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) members saw 80 per cent vote in favour of overtime-bans and complete work stoppages. “We’re obviously very pleased at the outcome of the vote and Qantas should take very careful note of it,” ALAEA spokesman

Joint venture partners Qantas and Australia Post have appointed current Qantas Freight head Stephen Cleary as new CEO for their freight business, Star Track Express. Cleary, who has more than 20 years’ experience in the commercial freight, distribution and logistics industries, will begin his new role from May 1. Cleary has been with Qantas for

A Qantas Airbus A330 flying from Manila to Sydney was forced to make an emergency landing in Cairns yesterday afternoon after suffering a cockpit fire. A330-200 VH-EBL was approximately 365nm northwest of Cairns when a windscreen window heating circuit began arcing. The crew donned oxygen masks and extinguished the resultant flames from the left hand