iscoverQantas says it has begun discussions with Rolls-Royce over compensation to cover loses from the QF32 Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engine failure and subsequent grounding of the airline’s Airbus A380 fleet. The airline says it has also filed a statement of claim and been granted an injunction by the Federal Court to ensure it can pursue
The Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has identified fatigue cracking “understood to be related to the manufacturing process” as “central” to the QF32 Rolls-Royce Trent 900 uncontained failure last month. “Recent examination of components removed from the failed engine at the Rolls-Royce plc facility in Derby, United Kingdom, have identified the presence of fatigue cracking
The Qantas Group has reported robust 8.8 per cent growth in traffic across its three airline brands – Qantas, Jetstar and QantasLink – in October compared to October 2009, but as RPKs increased by 5.4 per cent but ASKs an even faster 6.4 per cent, revenue seat factor fell 0.8 percentage points to 82.5 per
The repair bill for Qantas’s A380 VH-OQA which suffered an uncontained engine failure near Singapore on November 4 is likely to approach US$70m (A$72.7m), according to an insurance company. In a monthly industry update, US based Aon Corp says damage caused by the failure “has been valued at just under $US70 million as a result
Qantas has returned the Airbus A380 to service three weeks after the QF32 catastrophic engine failure, with flight QF31 from Sydney to London via Singapore departing on late Saturday afternoon. “It’s great that we can reintroduce the aircraft,” Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said at Sydney Airport before the flight’s departure. “We are 100 per cent
Jetstar and Japan Airlines have announced plans to expand and extend their codeshare arrangements on flights between Australia and Japan for a further two years. Adding to the agreement first signed in 2007, the two airlines will extend the agreements currently in place for services between Cairns and Tokyo, Gold Coast and Osaka, and Cairns-Osaka,
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