Category: Qantas

China’s ambassador to Australia Ma Zhaoxu has asked Australia’s competition regulator to “bear in mind” the interests of the overall relationship between Australia and China when considering the proposed China Eastern-Qantas alliance. The public comments from the Chinese diplomat were in a letter Ma wrote to Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) chairman Rod Sims.

Australia’s “mixed demand environment” and the timing of public holidays prompted Qantas and Jetstar to take more seats out of the domestic market in April. Qantas reduced capacity, measured by available seat kilometres, by five per cent in April, according to the airline group’s monthly traffic statistics released on Friday. This content is available exclusively

Qantas has ended Virgin Australia’s run as the nation’s most punctual airline. Figures from the Bureau of Infrastructure, Transport and Regional Economics (BITRE) showed 87.9 per cent of all Qantas domestic flights departed on time in April, while 86 per cent of its services arrived at the gate on time. This content is available exclusively

Qantas’s planned resumption of flights between Perth and Singapore from June has been given a boost with Finnair to codeshare on the five times a week service. Finnair said in a statement on May 13 the move to add its AY airline code on Qantas’s Boeing 737-800 services would “create additional scheduling and route options”