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Two Qantas pilots have been stood down following an incident at Sydney Airport where they failed to lower their plane's landing gear as it approached the runway. The incident, confirmed by the airline today, occurred on October 26 on a Melbourne-Sydney...
Tags: Qantas, pilot forgot, Melbourne-Sydney, Sydney Airport, qantas pilot, landing gear, Boeing, lower wheels
Alan Joyce says the Qantas network will not be "Jetstarised". Photo: Louise Kennerley The low-cost carrier will no longer be used to replace Qantas flights, writes Clive Dorman. Qantas will go head-to-head on the London route against low-cost carrier...
A Qantas spokeswoman said the captain on flight QF593 became so sick he was unable to fly the plane about an hour before the scheduled landing on Friday morning. She said the pilot had suffered a minor health problem during the flight and an ambulance...
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Australian airline Qantas also received a gong for its $7.70 credit card surcharge per passenger per flight, which Choice says exceeds the average 1 per cent credit card fee normally charged. Uncle Toby's was also named and shamed for selling smaller...
Tags: Qantas, credit card, shonky award, cosmetics giant, L'Oreal, card surcharge
The airline's fifth A-380 was due to arrive at the end of this month but its arrival has now been put off until December. Qantas says the delay is because it is discussing flight trim issues with the manufacturer. The flight trim system keeps the plane...
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Sydney for more than 26 hours following problems with two Qantas planes. Around 120 passengers on flight QF31 experienced the lengthy delay on the Sydney-Singapore-London service. The flight was originally delayed for over five hours due to a hydraulics...
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We are still planning to buy 160 aircraft over ten years," Qantas chief Alan Joyce told a conference in Canberra. "We have an investment pipeline of more than $7 billion over the coming three years alone." The airline is facing a fight for passengers...
Tags: Alan Joyce, Qantas, air traffic
The number of passengers travelling on international flights with Jetstar more than doubled from August last year, as the airline expands its lower cost budget brand to cope with the global economic downturn. While Jetstar's international passenger numbers...
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These new aircraft will become the flagship of our trans-Tasman fleet. They are New Zealand registered and based, and will be operated by New Zealand based pilots and cabin crew. We believe it is only fitting to recognise this by naming these aircraft...
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Alan Joyce inherited the airline just as the global financial crisis slashed its profits and, as a result, received no short-term cash incentives (which were worth $1.2 million to him as the head of Jetstar in 2008), and a large reduction in the value...
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