Category: Qantas

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A Qantas Airbus A380 operating a flight bound for Sydney was forced to divert to Noumea on August 11, making it the first A380 to visit New Caledonia. “It’s a first for us,” William Grillon, deputy head of operations at the Noumea airport told the ABC. “But we were ready to receive this large aircraft,

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Qantas says that it currently has no plans to sell Terminal 3 at Sydney Airport, scotching speculation that MAp (formerly Macquarie Airports) was lining up to buy it. According to a report in The Australian, the lease on Terminal 3 is up for renewal in 2014, and Qantas says it intends to exercise an option

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The Qantas Group has announced a major restructuring of the management of Jetstar, which it says will position the low cost carrier group for future growth across the Asian region. Under the changes, current Jetstar CEO Bruce Buchanan has been appointed to the role of group chief executive officer for Jetstar, under which he will

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Qantas is aiming to grab a larger slice of the WA aviation market, with the airline targeting fly-in/fly-out (FIFO) and other regional operations. According to a report in The West Australian newspaper, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce said the airline had entered a tender to the WA government to operate services on the Perth to Albany,

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Qantas’s executive of government and corporate affairs David Epstein has launched an attack on regional airports in mining centres which have raised their passenger charges. Epstein told attendees at the Australia Pacific Aviation Outlook Summit that an “overwhelming number” of regional airports, predominately those owned by councils, had their natural advantage and “uninhibited use of

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The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) has finalised licensing arrangements which will allow passengers to use their mobile phones in flight. Under the new arrangements, mobile communication services on aircraft will be governed by apparatus and class licenses. ACMA says it has consulted closely with CASA for the new licensing arrangements, with no technical

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