Some of the flights cancelled on June 9, eight days after a Chilean volcano started erupting , have still been held in abeyance due to ash cloud created by a volcanic eruption.
Qantas Airways Ltd has cancelled all the flights in and out of Melbourne from Sunday evening due to a volcanic eruption in southern Chile.
Australia's Qantas Airways said it expects to cut around 350 of its cabin crew jobs, or 5 percent of total, under a voluntary redundancy program as the airline seeks to reduce costs to offset higher fuel prices.
Last week we had snakes on a train. This week there’s rats on a plane.
The Australian share market pared early losses to close around 0.2 per cent higher, as investors snapped up bank stocks and other cyclicals with attractive dividend yields.
Australia's Qantas Airways plans to scale back some flights and cut management jobs to help offset soaring fuel prices and an estimated A$140 million ($144 million) hit to its earnings from a string of natural disasters in key markets.
Australia's Qantas Airways plans to axe capacity and management jobs and retire some aircraft early under cost-cutting measures aimed at offsetting soaring fuel prices and the impact of natural disasters in Japan, New Zealand and Australia.
Australia's top airline Qantas has raised airfares to offset rising fuel costs that is threatening airline profits.
Qantas Airways and Singapore Airlines said on Wednesday they would raise fuel surcharges to offset higher oil prices, while Cathay Pacific <0293.HK> warned that growing energy costs could hurt its profits.
The violent protests in Egypt could deal a major blow to the country’s vital tourism industry, a development that could be economically crushing to the already riot-ravaged country.
Qantas Airways will resume Airbus A380 flights between Australia and Los Angeles from January 16, the airline said on Tuesday.
Heavy snow and ice grounded air travel across Europe for a third day on Monday leaving thousands of passengers stranded even as airports struggled to clear a backlog of flights cancelled or delayed by snowfalls.
Engine checks on the world's largest airliner following last month's Qantas emergency have scuppered Airbus's hopes of meeting a target of delivering 20 A380 superjumbos this year.
Airbus will fall one plane short of its delivery target for the A380 superjumbo this year, following engine checks in the wake of last month's Qantas
Airbus raised its forecast for aircraft demand over the next 20 years, citing the travel needs of 6 billion people in emerging economies as airlines stage a stronger-than-predicted rebound from recession.
Pilots of a crippled Qantas Airbus A380 superjumbo struggled with more than a dozen system errors after an engine blew apart on Nov 4 and landed the plane in Singapore with barely any runway to spare, an Australian investigation showed.
Qantas Airways is claiming damages from engine maker Rolls-Royce over faulty Airbus A380 engines and loss of business, as investigators concluded a design fault was the likely cause of a mid-air engine failure on an Airbus A380 last month.
Qantas Airways has alleged engine maker Rolls-Royce was in breach of duty when it supplied engines for its Airbus A380 aircraft because of a design defect, the airline said in document filed in an Australian court.
The couple went through tough times after losing their 16-year-old son, Jett, last year due to a seizure attack.
The world’s second largest engine maker Rolls-Royce Group Plc is making arrangements to ship engines from Airbus SAS A380’s production line to replace turbines
Rolls-Royce expects full year underlying profit growth to be slightly lower than its prior forecast, blaming engine failure incident on a Qantas A380 super-jumbo flight last week.
Guests at a recent recording of the Oprah Winfrey show were in for a surprise when the chat show queen announced that she was flying them all down to Australia to can two shows from the final season of her talk show.
