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This has forced many Australian tourists to cancel their holidays to Fiji, reports the Brisbane Times. The interim Government had declared a state of emergency as heavy rain and flooding, brought about by a tropical depression, continues.
Tags: Fiji, Nadi International Airport, Air Pacific, tropical storms, Qantas, Sydney
Malaysian budget airline Air Asia about a possible merger with Jetstar to beat falling demand from travellers. The Courier-Mail has confirmed that preliminary talks between Qantas and Air Asia representatives were initiated by the Malaysian carrier and...
Tags: AirAsia, Malaysian, Malaysia-Indonesia, Qantas, Jetstar
Be prepared for delays and cancellations as winter storms threaten to snarl the skies at the start of the busy holiday travel season. Some departures were delayed several hours or more Thursday at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport as the weather deteriorated...
Tags: international airport, weather, holiday travel, Qantas
British Airways and Qantas on Thursday called off their merger plans after failing to agree terms. The talks foundered after the two airlines, which had been in negotiations since August, could not agree on what proportion of a combined business would...
Tags: Qantas, British Airways, Australian, merger talks, Willie Walsh
Managing Director and Chief Executive Idris Jala said the state-owned carrier aims to "pursue strategic partnerships to create additional value" under its business transformation plan. "We are in talks with a number of airlines, including Qantas. This...
Tags: Malaysia Airlines, Qantas, Idris Jala
Qantas must remain Australian-owned for reasons of national security, even if a potential merger with British Airways goes ahead, Transport Minister Anthony Albanese said Sunday. The two airlines announced last week they were in talks to create a global...
Tags: Alan Joyce, Barnaby Joyce, Qantas, THE Coalition, Nationals Senate, nationals senator, senator joyce, British Airways, joyce says, merger talks
British Airways even as growing competition concerns threaten to block the runway. Analysts and industry observers describe the deal as the "second best" option. The better alternative, according to aviation analysts, would have been to partner up in...
THE recently departed Qantas boss Geoff Dixon argued for years that it was inevitable the Australian carrier would be swept up in the wave of consolidation activity moving around the global airline sector. But after British Airways confirmed on Tuesday...
Tags: Qantas
An exception among the miners is Vedanta Resources , up 20p at 536p as the company revealed it was cutting capital expenditure by $5bn to $25bn and unveiled a $250m plan to buy back up to 10% of its shares. "Given the recent share price decline and current...
Tags: Merrill Lynch, royal banking, Qantas, Vedanta Resources, Royal Bank of Scotland, British Airways
British Airways soared 12.5 per cent overnight after the airline said it was in merger talks with Qantas. A successful merger would create the world’s first multi-continent airline group. The talks come even as BA continues merger talks with Spain's Iberia,...
Tags: Qantas, merger talks, Iberia, British Airways, Spain, Australia, American Airlines, airport site, Willie Walsh, international airport