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Strike by engineers won’t hit flights or safety, says Qantas

Monday, November 16, 2009 3:53

Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, has sought to assure passengers that the strike by the carrier’s engineers would not result in grounding any flights and asked the passengers to check departure times on mobile phones and also on its website.

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Mothers angry after Qantas Airways overbooks babies and then bumps them off flights

Thursday, August 6, 2009 14:25

Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, is finding itself in a sticky situation when it has had to bump hundreds of mothers with babies off some of its Canberra-bound flights after the carrier’s online booking system “failed to register” the number of infants booked to fly.

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Qantas Airways to operate daily Sydney-London, Sydney-Los Angles flights from November 2009

Saturday, June 20, 2009 14:51

Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, is increasing the number of services to London and Los Angeles by operating daily services with Airbus A380 aircraft from Sydney in Australia to London and Los Angles from November 2009.

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Qantas Airways to do away with first-class seating on some international routes

Tuesday, May 26, 2009 12:39

  Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, has decided to abolish temporarily first-class seating on 42 of its weekly long-distance international flights between July 6, 2009, and October 31, 2009.

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Strike by Qantas Airways staff leads to big delays across Australia

Monday, March 30, 2009 19:50

A strike by baggage handlers of Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, resulted in long delays at major airports across Australia on March 30, 2009.

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Qantas Airways to cut 100 senior jobs

Monday, March 23, 2009 14:58

Qantas Airways to scrap 100 senior executive posts in a bid to tackle the tough times.

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Qantas A380 Sydney-London flights launched

Monday, January 19, 2009 6:25

Quantas has launched A380 Sydney-London flights from January 16, 2008.

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Australian court fines Qantas Airways and British Airways for cargo price-fixing

Monday, December 15, 2008 10:54

The Federal Court of Australia has fined Qantas Airways, Australia’s national airline, Australian $20 million (US $13.1 million) after the airline admit that it engaged in price-fixing linked to international cargo fuel surcharges.

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British Airways in merger talks with Qantas Airways to create ‘global airline’

Thursday, December 4, 2008 12:23

British Airways, the national airline and flag carrier of the United Kingdom and one of the largest ailrines in Europe, is holding merger talks with Qantas Airways, the national airline and flag carrier of of Australia.

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Qantas Airways cuts fuel surcharge for domestic flights by $ 5

Thursday, November 27, 2008 15:01

Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, has decided to reduce its fuel surcharge for domestic flights by $5 following a decline in the prices of oil globally.

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Qantas Airbus A380 flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles takes off

Qantas Airbus A380 flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles takes off

Monday, October 20, 2008 13:20

Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia and the nation’s largest carrier, launched commercial service of its new Airbus A380 Superjumbo, the world’s largest passenger airliner, on October 20, 2008.

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Qantas Airways gets its first Airbus A380 Superjumbo, more on the way

Tuesday, September 23, 2008 9:25

Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, has taken delivery of the first of its Airbus A380 Superjumbo from Toulouse, France.

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Qantas conundrum continues: Two flights cancelled due to mechanical malfunction

Friday, September 5, 2008 8:05

In the latest in a series of mechanical problems that have been plaguing Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, in the last about two months, two flights were cancelled.

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CASA warns Qantas on maintenance norms; a Qantas plane makes emergency landing in Frankfurt

Tuesday, September 2, 2008 6:19

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) of Australia, the country’s national aviation regulator, has warned Qantas Airways Limited that its “maintenance has fallen below the airline’s own benchmarks and needs to improve.”

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Qantas continues to be in trouble, grounds 6 Boeing 737-400 aircraft

Friday, August 15, 2008 8:30

Qantas Airways, already embattled by a series of technical glitches that led to grounding of about half a dozen aircraft recently, suffered yet another setback when its 6 Boeing 737-400 aircraft were grounded on the night of August 12, 2008, because of irregularities in maintenance records. Following the latest incident, Australia’s ...

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Yet another Qantas plane grounded owing to technical glitch

Sunday, August 10, 2008 8:27

There has been yet another incident of mechanical fault on a Qantas Airways’ plane – this time, on a domestic flight heading from Melbourne to Canberra.

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Post-explosion, Qantas checks oxygen tanks in its entire fleet of Boeing 747-400 aircraft

Friday, August 8, 2008 15:52

Qantas Airways has completed examination of all oxygen tanks aboard its fleet of Boeing 747-400s aircraft (jumbo aircraft). This has been done in an attempt to find out the cause of the on-board explosion in the Qantas Airways’ jumbo jet on a flight from London to Melbourne in Australia on July 25, 2008.

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Australia’s aviation watchdog to investigate Qantas after 3 mid-air faults

Thursday, August 7, 2008 11:51

The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), Australia’s aviation watchdog, has decided to investigate Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia.

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Qantas cancels 18 flights as engineers strike work

Wednesday, June 25, 2008 7:38

Qantas, the national airline of Australia, cancelled 18 flights on June 24, 2008, as engineers struck work to press their demand for an increase in wages.

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Qantas Airways starts selling seats for first flight of Airbus A380 Superjumbo

Tuesday, June 17, 2008 21:38

Qantas, the national airline and flag-carrier of Australia, started selling, on June 16, 2008, seats for the first flight on the airline’s new Airbus A380 Superjumbo. Airbus A380 is the world’s largest passenger aircraft.

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Qantas Airways to close down routes, clip jobs, retire aircraft

Monday, June 9, 2008 7:31

Qantas Airways Limited, the national carrier of Australia, has announced that it would shut down some flight routes, retire aircraft and shed jobs in its effort to check costs as prices of aviation fuel keep rising.

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Qantas to clip flights to Asia, move some routes to Jetstar

Monday, June 9, 2008 7:21

Qantas Airways Limited, Australia's largest carrier and the country’s national airline, has decided either to cancel or reduce many of its services to Japan and south-east Asia in the wake of exceptionally high prices of aviation fuel.

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Big airlines may levy baggae and check in charges like budget carriers

Tuesday, June 3, 2008 21:45

Global airline giants such as British Airways, the national airline and flag carrier of the United Kingdom and one of the largest in Europe, and Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, are likely to join low-cost, rival carriers in charging passengers for baggage check-in and food in the face of exceptionally high prices of aviation fuel.

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Airlines in Asia-Pacific region cut flights, jack up surcharges to beat fuel prices

Monday, June 2, 2008 19:51

Like elsewhere in the world, airlines across the Asia-Pacific region are feeling the pinch of the phenomenal rise in prices of aviation fuel.

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