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Earlier story has been updated to include comment from Virgin Australia Lithium ion batteries will no longer be able to be sent as cargo on board Qantas and Jetstar aircraft from April 1 after the airline group conducted a new safety assessment. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member

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Qantas maintained its position as Australia’s largest international carrier in 2014, although the gap to foreign airlines such as Emirates and Qantas’s low-cost subsidiary Jetstar is narrowing. Figures from the Bureau of Transport, Infrastructure and Regional Economics (BITRE) show Qantas carried 15.4 per cent of the 33.1 million passengers that travelled into and out of Australia

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While Qantas has handed the “keys” to VH-OJA over to the Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (HARS), the record-breaking Boeing 747-400 will be surrounded by a lot of familiar faces as it settles into a new home at Illawarra Airport. That’s because, as Qantas Captain Greg Matthews explains, there are about 400 HARS volunteers that have actually

Air Traffic Management

Investigators have been unable to figure out why a traffic collision avoidance system (TCAS) unit on board a Qantas Airbus A330-200 failed to warn pilots about a loss of separation incident in September 2013, the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) says. The incident on September 20 2013 involved VH-EBS operating from Perth to Sydney and VH-EBO

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Qantas has dotted every ‘i’ and crossed every ‘t’ ahead of the retirement flight for its first Boeing 747-400, VH-OJA. All that is left to do now is hope for good weather on Sunday. Qantas is gifting VH-OJA City of Canberra, which flew non-stop from London to Sydney for its delivery flight in 1989, to

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Qantas has forecast an improved second half as it further screws down on costs and realises further gains from lower fuel prices after reporting its best first half result in five years. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login.

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