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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.”

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 ...

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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