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SYDNEY: Vanessa Hudson could hardly have taken the helm of Qantas Airways Ltd at a worse time.
Australia's Qantas Airways has showered investors with its first post-pandemic ordinary dividend, and a special dividend, for the first time in a quarter of a century.
Virgin Australia has overtaken Qantas Airways Ltd to become Australia's largest and most reliable airline as at the end of last year.
SYDNEY: At each of Australia’s major domestic airports, a “secret” unmarked door leads to an exclusive lounge run by national carrier Qantas Airways for the political and business elite.
SYDNEY: A Qantas plane made an emergency landing due to a "contained engine failure" Friday (Nov 8), soon after taking off from Sydney Airport, the carrier said in a statement.
SYDNEY: A court on Monday (Oct 21) ordered Australia's Qantas Airways to pay a combined A$170,000 (US$114,000) to three baggage handlers it unlawfully sacked in 2020, implying a big damages bill for a lawsuit involving about 1,700 former workers whose jobs were outsourced.
Australian airline Qantas is apologising after a recent flight from Sydney to Haneda Airport in Tokyo featured an R-rated movie shown on every screen. And, according to online comments from people who said they were passengers on the flight, the movie could not be turned off.
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese's office said on Wednesday he had "not ever" called the chief executive of airline Qantas seeking flight upgrades, denying an allegation aired in a book that has brewed into a political storm over integrity.
Former Qantas Airways Ltd chief executive officer Alan Joyce was paid A$3.4mil or about US$2.3mil for little more than two months’ work before he left the airline early with its brand in tatters and was stripped of almost half his previous compensation.
SYDNEY: Qatar Airways will buy a 25% stake in Virgin Australia from U.S. private equity firm Bain Capital, posing a tougher contest for Qantas Airways that has dominated Australian routes and pushed back against giving access to the Middle Eastern carrier.
SINGAPORE: A Qantas Airways flight from Perth to Singapore damaged the runway during takeoff on Sunday (Sept 15), leaving behind fragments of the tarmac.
SYDNEY: Passengers aboard a flight to Tokyo last week got more inflight entertainment than they bargained for last week when an explicit film featuring sex talk and explicit images was broadcast to every screen.
The collapse of another Australian airline – at least the fourth in as many years – highlights again the overwhelming local dominance of Qantas Airways Ltd and increases pressure on the government to rein in the century-old giant.
SYDNEY: A Qantas flight bound for Brisbane made an emergency landing in Sydney airport after passengers heard a loud bang from one of its engines, Australian media reported on Friday.
Australian Retirement Trust (ART), the nation’s second-largest pension, agreed to merge with smaller rival Qantas Super, in the latest sign of mega-funds ramping up their domination of the A$3.9 trillion industry.
Australia's Qantas Airways agreed to pay A$120 million ($79 million) to settle a regulator lawsuit over the sale of thousands of tickets on already cancelled flights, in an attempt to end a reputational crisis that has engulfed the airline.
QANTAS Airways said on Tuesday it will suspend flights to Shanghai starting July 28, citing low demand, about nine months after the Australian flag carrier resumed service from Sydney on hopes of a travel rebound following the pandemic.
Qantas Airways Ltd said a technology upgrade caused the airline’s frequent flyer app to malfunction on Wednesday, allowing some members to access the travel details, personal data and boarding passes of complete strangers.
Qantas Airways Ltd says first-half profit declined as airfares fell from their post-Covid spike, and new chief executive officer (CEO) Vanessa Hudson increases spending to help restore the airline’s tarnished reputation.
SYDNEY: Australia's Qantas Airways has been fined A$250,000 (US$162,375) for illegally sacking an employee who told staff not to clean aircraft arriving from China early in the Covid-19 pandemic, adding to the airline's reputational challenges.
