Category: Qantas

Qantas’s A380 project was named the National Project of the Year by the Australian Institute of Project Managers in Adelaide on October 13. The project beat 107 other submissions to take out the prize. The AIPM noted that that the $2 billion project took six years and involved more than 1000 people while also having

Qantas has cut its plans to start seasonal flights to South Korea, while it will not proceed with a proposed seventh weekly service on the Sydney-Johannesburg route, according to a filing with the International Air Services Commission. The filing was an application for the extension of a number of determinations which granted capacity to the

The Qantas Group recorded a six per cent increase in passenger traffic during August, although traffic on Qantas’s international services dropped by more than a quarter compared to the previous year. Domestically, Qantas and Jetstar recorded increases in passenger numbers of 1.8 and 1.3 per cent respectively, although QantasLink saw a decline of 0.2 per

Qantas and Tiger Airways have defended their practice of levying credit card surcharges after Choice Magazine labelled them as excessive. Choice says that in some cases the airlines are charging far more than the actual merchant fees to process credit card transactions. “We think it’s fair for there to be some cost … but it