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THE parent of Australian low-cost airline Tiger Airways sunk to a loss of about $S28 million ($A22 million) for the year to March, in a sharp reversal on the previous year's $S10 million profit. The result for the Singapore Airlines-backed Tiger Aviation...
Tags: Singapore Airlines-backed Tiger Aviation, Tiger Airways Australia, Australia, Sydney, Qantas, Temasek Holdings, Tiger Airways, Tiger Aviation, Low-cost carrier, Low-cost airlines, Singapore Airlines, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Business Finance
Qantas check-ins thrown into chaos after computer system failure Article from: November 16, 2009 06:40pm ALL Qantas check-ins have been thrown into chaos, after the computer check-in system failed across the country and the world. The Amadeus program...
Tags: ALL Qantas, Australia, Brisbane, Low-cost airlines, British Airways, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Acronyms, Qantas, Melbourne Airport, Disaster Accident
Flight 72 was flying from Singapore to Perth with 303 passengers on October 7, 2008, when at about 3pm it suddenly fell from its cruising altitude near 11,278 metres. A mayday call was issued and the Airbus A330 landed at Learmonth, more than 1,000 kilometres...
Tags: Singapore, Qantas, Airbus A330, Airbus, Qantas Flight 72, Jet aircraft, Acronyms, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Disaster Accident
On November 11 Singapore's flag carrier, Singapore Airlines, announced it will launch a twice-daily service to Haneda Airport, marking another step towards a second major international airport for Tokyo. The services will start in October 2010, with...
Tags: Singapore Airlines, Haneda Airport, Tokyo, Singapore, Tokyo International Airport, Transport in Tokyo, Narita International Airport, Jetstar Airways, Low-cost carrier, Low-cost airlines, Qantas, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Business Finance
The gold miner on Friday announced details of a Share Purchase Programme for Australian and New Zealand shareholders to subscribe for up to A$8,000 or NZ$10,00 of shares. Funds raised will be used to fund more exploration and for working capital, it said.
Tags: New Zealand, Auckland, Infratil, New Zealand Exchange, Business Finance, Qantas, Woolworth, Woolworths Limited, Cent
British Airways cabin crew begin strike ballot vote Industrial action would ground the airline's fleet over the Christmas period British Airways cabin crew will start the countdown towards a Christmas walkout tomorrow as voting begins on a strike ballot.
Tags: Iberia, cabin crew, strike ballot, British Airways, United Kingdom, London, Aer Lingus, Willie Walsh, Airline, Flight attendant, Malaysia Airlines, Iberia Airlines, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Labor, Business Finance, Unite the Union, London Borough of Hillingdon, Disaster Accident, Qantas, Air France-KLM, Low-cost carrier, London Heathrow Airport, British Caledonian in the 1980s, BMI
Leader Isobel Redmond has called on the Federal Government to fine airlines that breach Adelaide Airport's curfew. She is hoping to avoid a repeat of the fiasco that forced a Qantas flight to divert to Canberra. The flight from Sydney on Thursday was...
Tags: Australia, Canberra, Adelaide Airport, Curfew, Tom Koutsantonis, Acronyms, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Qantas
I've been pondering the koala in front of me, and my quandary is this: is it cute, or is it sinister?...I grew up with those Qantas advertisements from the 1970s in which a curmudgeonly, xenophobic little furry-eared marsupial by the name of Sydney starred...
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Virgin has played down fears of price rises on the Pacific route, writes Clive Dorman. Reports of a steep rise in air fares to the US have been greatly exaggerated, according to the airline industry. There are still plenty of ultra-cheap fares and talk...
Tags: Australian, Delta, United States, Heather Jeffery, Qantas, Pacific, Australia, Perth, V Australia, Virgin Blue, Airbus A380, Malaysia Airlines, Business Finance, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Low-cost airlines, Acronyms
Can anyone tell me why it costs almost double to buy a return air fare from Australia to Britain than it does from Britain to Australia? I travelled recently to Britain in business class with Etihad (it was superb) after finding the best price among the...
Tags: Britain, United Kingdom, Perth, Europcar, Automobile rental, Etihad Airways, Fee, Acronyms, Association of Asia Pacific Airlines, Qantas