Category: Qantas

Qantas unveiled a new Socceroos decal on one of its Boeing 747-400s in a ceremony at Melbourne Airport on October 22, ahead of the Socceroos FIFA World Cup campaign in South Africa next year. “This aircraft will be flying across Australia and around the globe, showing the support that Australia has for its football team,”

Qantas chairman Leigh Clifford told investors at the company’s AGM in Perth on October 21 that while the global economic outlook remained uncertain, the airline was “seeing some encouraging signs and certainly no further deterioration.” “The Qantas Group is well positioned to withstand this period of downturn with the strengths of its two flying brands,

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told The Australian that Jetstar would not take over any more routes from the Qantas brand despite the success in turning around losses in the Japanese and domestic New Zealand markets. “We have decided that, with Qantas, we have gone to a minimum network, a network we can’t drop below,”

Qantas is not expected to take its next two Airbus A380s until December following “flight stability problems” encountered with one of the aircraft, The Sydney Morning Herald has reported. The airline has confirmed that one of the A380s will undergo further testing at Toulouse after encountering the problems during routine flight testing, the newspaper reported.