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		<title>Qantas Airways to cut number of first-class, business-class seats after income and profits dip; to raise fares in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-to-cut-number-of-first-class-business-class-seats-after-income-and-profits-dip-to-raise-fares-in-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Feb 2010 21:32:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=3129</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Qantas Airways, the he national airline of Australia, has said it will cut the number of first-class and business-class seats on all except a few routes. This follows the airline’s profits nosediving by as much as 72%.

The carrier’s net income for the 6 months ended December 31, 2009, was Australian $58 million (US $52 million; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia to ease foreign-ownership curbs on Qantas Airways</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:05:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=2750</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Australia’s federal government has decided to relax some of the foreign-ownership curbs clamped on Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia.

At present, foreign carriers have been restricted from holding more than 35% of Qantas Airways. Also, individual shareholdings by foreigners should not go beyond 25%.
The Australian government’s decision follows the release of a National Aviation [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike by engineers won&#8217;t hit flights or safety, says Qantas</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/strike-by-engineers-safety-says-qantas/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 03:53:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jose Philip</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=2497</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
Around 200 engineers who check the airworthiness of the Qantas fleet has been on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mothers angry after Qantas Airways overbooks babies and then bumps them off flights</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/mothers-angry-after-qantas-airways-overbooks-babies-and-then-bumps-them-off-flights/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Aug 2009 14:25:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1929</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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. Several hundreds of mothers with babies have booked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas Airways to operate daily Sydney-London, Sydney-Los Angles flights from November 2009</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-to-operate-daily-sydney-london-sydney-los-angles-flights-from-november-2009/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Jun 2009 14:51:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1668</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.
In as statement, Qantas Airways said that the airline, after it receives its 4th Airbus A380 aircraft at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas Airways to do away with first-class seating on some international routes</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-to-do-away-with-first-class-seating-on-some-international-routes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2009 12:39:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Airlines]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1584</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[ 
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. During this period, Qantas Airways, which is also Australia’s biggest airline, will offer only business, premium economy, and economy classes. 
The airline said it would also charge [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Strike by Qantas Airways staff leads to big delays across Australia</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/strike-by-qantas-airways-staff-leads-to-big-delays-across-australia/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 19:50:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1219</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.Both domestic and international passengers were inconvenienced by the strike, Qantas Airways said in a statement, with long delays occurring at Adelaide Airport and other terminals in Brisbane, Sydney and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas Airways to cut 100 senior jobs</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-to-cut-100-senior-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2009 14:58:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=1160</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Qantas Airways to scrap 100 senior executive posts in a bid to tackle the tough times.
Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia and the country’s largest carrier, will cut 100 senior executive jobs as a apart of its efforts to deal with the fall in demand for air travel worldwide.
A reorganisation of the airline’s management [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas A380 Sydney-London flights launched</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-a380-sydney-london-flights-launched/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2009 06:25:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=845</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Quantas has launched A380 Sydney-London flights from January 16, 2008. 
The A380 aircraft is the third in Qantas&#8217; fleet of A380s and was delivered to Qantas on December 27, 2008.
Qantas&#8217; A380 will be used for the new flights from Sydney-London Heathrow via Singapore thrice a week, on Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays and return services on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australian court fines Qantas Airways and British Airways for cargo price-fixing</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/australian-court-fines-qantas-airways-and-british-airways-for-cargo-price-fixing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:54:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=717</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

This is the second-biggest fine levied on an individual company by the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for price-fixing.
The Federal Court of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>British Airways in merger talks with Qantas Airways to create &#8216;global airline&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/british-airways-in-merger-talks-with-qantas-airways-to-create-global-airline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Dec 2008 12:23:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=680</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

If the deal materialises, it would create what can be rightly called the world’s first global airline.
British Airways is already [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas Airways cuts fuel surcharge for domestic flights by $ 5</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-cuts-fuel-surcharge-for-domestic-flights-by-5/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-cuts-fuel-surcharge-for-domestic-flights-by-5/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Nov 2008 15:01:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=649</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

The new surcharge for Qantas Airways (of $21, down from $26) and for QantasLink jet services would apply to all tickets issued from November 28, 2008.
Surcharges on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas Airbus A380 flight from Melbourne to Los Angeles takes off</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airbus-a380-flight-from-melbourne-to-los-angeles-takes-off/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Oct 2008 13:20:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=486</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[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.

Flying on the Melbourne to Los Angeles route, Qantas thus became the first carrier to carry paying passengers to Los Angeles in an Airbus A380.
Flight QF93 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas Airways gets its first Airbus A380 Superjumbo, more on the way</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-gets-its-first-airbus-a380-superjumbo-more-on-the-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Sep 2008 09:25:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/?p=352</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia, has taken delivery of the first of its Airbus A380 Superjumbo from Toulouse, France.

Qantas was the first airline to order the Airbus A380, the world’s largest passenger aircraft.
Qantas Airways’ Airbus A380 will make its maiden scheduled service on October 20, 2008, when it flies from Melbourne in Australia [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas conundrum continues: Two flights cancelled due to mechanical malfunction</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-conundrum-continues-two-flights-cancelled-due-to-mechanical-malfunction/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2008 08:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. While one flight cancelled was after fumes were detected on board, passengers on another flight of Qantas Airways were held up overnight because of damage [...]]]></description>
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		<title>CASA warns Qantas on maintenance norms; a Qantas plane makes emergency landing in Frankfurt</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/casa-qantas-maintenance-plane-emergency-landing-frankfurt/</link>
		<comments>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/casa-qantas-maintenance-plane-emergency-landing-frankfurt/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 06:19:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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, the national airline of Australia and also the nation’s largest airline, is based in Sydney, with its main hub at Kingsford Smith [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas continues to be in trouble, grounds 6 Boeing 737-400 aircraft</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-continues-to-be-in-trouble-grounds-6-boeing-737-400-aircraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Yet another Qantas plane grounded owing to technical glitch</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 10 Aug 2008 08:27:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The Canberra-bound Boeing 737 jet returned to the terminal and passengers were transferred to another plane, which left Melbourne 90 minutes later.
A spokesman of Qantas Airways said the problem [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Post-explosion, Qantas checks oxygen tanks in its entire fleet of Boeing 747-400 aircraft</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/post-explosion-qantas-checks-oxygen-tanks-in-its-entire-fleet-of-boeing-747-400-aircraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Aug 2008 15:52:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 Qantas [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Australia’s aviation watchdog to investigate Qantas after 3 mid-air faults</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/australia%e2%80%99s-aviation-watchdog-to-investigate-qantas-after-3-mid-air-faults/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:51:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA), Australia’s aviation watchdog, has decided to investigate Qantas Airways, the national airline of Australia.
The move follows three mid-air emergencies that happened recently on Qantas jets in less than 10 days.
The investigation will take place over the next two weeks.
The Civil Aviation Safety Authority has formed a special team to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas cancels 18 flights as engineers strike work</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The airline had cancelled 6 domestic flights on June 23.
A top executive of Qantas said all passengers on cancelled flights had been placed on other flights, all within one [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas Airways starts selling seats for first flight of Airbus A380 Superjumbo</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-starts-selling-seats-for-first-flight-of-airbus-a380-superjumbo/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jun 2008 21:38:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The first flight of Qantas’ Airbus A380 – from Melbourne in Australia to Los Angeles in the United States – is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas Airways to close down routes, clip jobs, retire aircraft</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-airways-to-close-down-routes-clip-jobs-retire-aircraft/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:31:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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. The airline said in a statement that, in the 2008-2009 financial year, it faces an increase in its fuel [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Qantas to clip flights to Asia, move some routes to Jetstar</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/qantas-to-clip-flights-to-asia-move-some-routes-to-jetstar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jun 2008 07:21:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Qantas Airways Limited, Australia&#8217;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. The thrice-weekly Melbourne-Tokyo service will be cut from September 2008. Besides, the number of flights between Sydney and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big airlines may levy baggae and check in charges like budget carriers</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2008 21:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[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 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Airlines in Asia-Pacific region cut flights, jack up surcharges to beat fuel prices</title>
		<link>http://www.dancewithshadows.com/aviation/airlines-in-asia-pacific-region-cut-flights-jack-up-surcharges-to-beat-fuel-prices/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Jun 2008 19:51:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Aviation Correspondent</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like elsewhere in the world, airlines across the Asia-Pacific region are feeling the pinch of the phenomenal rise in prices of aviation fuel. In a desperate effort to survive, airlines in the region are resorting to various steps to cut operating costs, including cutting flights and increasing surcharges.
Fuel costs for airlines, which now typically account [...]]]></description>
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