iscoverQantas’s sixth Airbus A380, VH-OQF Charles Kingsford Smith (MSN029) landed at Sydney Airport at approximately 8:45am today after its delivery flight from Toulouse via Singapore as QF6028. The first A380 to be delivered in 2010, VH-OQF was handed over to Qantas in Toulouse on January 8. Airbus says it plans to deliver at least 20
The Vietnamese government has prevented two Australian executives of Jetstar Pacific, COO Daniela Marsilli and CFO Tristan Freeman, from leaving the country and is holding former CEO Luong Hoai Nam in custody as it investigates fuel hedging losses at the airline. Marsilli (a former managing director of National Jet, now Cobham Aviation Services Australia) and
The Qantas and AirAsia groups have announced an alliance between AirAsia and Jetstar aimed at reducing fleet acquisition, operating, fuel and spare parts costs for both low cost airlines. The announcement, made in Sydney by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, AirAsia CEO Tony Fernandes, and Jetstar CEO Bruce Buchanan on January 6, aims to pool the
Qantas passengers around Australia and New Zealand were affected by delays on January 3 after the airline’s Amadeus check-in system crashed for the second time in two months. The system experienced a server outage of about one hour during the morning peak which produced flow-on delays for most of the day, the airline only catching
The Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA) has launched legal action against Qantas over paying pilots employed by its New Zealand subsidiary Jetconnect less than mainline pilots. AIPA says that the strategic legal action is aimed at stopping Qantas from “undermining the spirit and intent of the Fair Work Act” by employing Jetconnect pilots to
Qantas has announced that it will deploy the A380 on the Melbourne-Singapore-London route from January 18 shortly after it takes delivery of its sixth of the type. Initially, one to two QF9/10 services per week will be operated by the A380, rising to regular twice weekly services from March 29. From that date, the airline
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