Virgin Australia confirmed what is only the first substantial addition of wide-bodied A330 capacity to key interstate markets that it will make in the nearer term.
Alan Joyce
Everyone might get what they want in Qantas dispute
Job security at Qantas was supposed to be impossible to guarantee. It was supposed to be fatal to the airline’s ability to escape from the confines of Australia’s borders and become competitive.
Asian airlines throw spanners into Qantas works
Events during the past 24 hours are not proving kind to Qantas’ ambitions in Asia. Vietnam Airlines and Malaysia Airlines have thrown spanners in the works.
Eight of the best power grabs of 2011
The past year has provided a smorgasbord of power snatching opportunities for those looking to increase their influence. Tom Cowie examines the eight most important ones in Australia.
Red Q, Un-Dead Q, where does Qantas go now?
Are claims by Qantas CEO Alan Joyce that it has not dropped its Red Q Asia based carrier credible? It appears to be like the parrot in the Monty Python sketch, not dead, just not talking, writes Ben Sandilands.
How busy was the Qantas Club lounge last week?
The Qantas Club in Brisbane was an empty affair last week. Qantas premium travel bookings on the main east coast routes were down 40% in October. Alan Joyce blamed the threat of industrial action. Is that fair? asks Ben Sandilands.
Alan Joyce faces fire in Senate grilling
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce faces a huge task to rebuild his credibility after a morning of intense questioning before a Senate inquiry.
Did Qantas fraudulently sell tickets on October 29?
According to Alan Joyce, on the morning of Saturday, October 29, the Qantas board decided to ground its fleets at 5pm that afternoon. And yet they continued to sell tickets throughout the day — probably in their thousands, writes Ben Sandilands.
podcast Canberra Calling: The Qantas quagmire podcast
Crikey’s political podcast with Canberra correspondent Bernard Keane joining Crikey editor Sophie Black to analyse the political and economic fallout stemming from Qantas’s historic decision to ground their national and international fleet.
How Clifford took the Qantas chair as a consolation prize
While Alan Joyce is copping most of the grief for the provocative Qantas lock-out on Saturday, no such decision can ever be taken without full board approval.
Qantas v Virgin: prepare to be bribed with bonuses
Qantas now has a real threat to deal with — Virgin Australia, with its bigger, cheaper business-class seats, real meals in economy class, lounges with food and seats for everyone. With lower fares.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Delegitimising unions
Crikey reads have their say.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: Restoring Qantas to public ownership
Crikey readers have their say.
Post-grounding, now it’s the Qantas-Virgin bidding war
Qantas and its natural enemy, Virgin Australia, are rolling out a massive and costly bidding war to retain or gain the customers that matter, the ones who fly frequently.
Your Say: Daily Mail readers' feedback: The good, the bad and the Qantas
Crikey readers have their say.
The remorseless logic and profound disdain of Alan Joyce
Qantas is prepared to threaten the Australian economy and thus has the government over a barrel. But it’s confirming Australians’ growing resentment of corporations.
Political snippets: Thank goodness for a sensible arbitration system
Goodness knows what continuing misery Australian air travelers would have gone through were it not for the safety net of having industrial disputes settled by arbitration when all else fails.
Crikey Says: Crikey says: the slow burn of Qantas customers
Yesterday’s decision by Fair Work Australia to terminate the fractious Qantas dispute gives the lie to the continuing criticism from business about the Fair Work Act somehow being pro-union.
Qantas to resume flights later today
Fair Work Australia has ordered the termination of all industrial action in the Qantas disputes, meaning the airline will be required to resume flights as soon as possible, writes Ben Sandilands.
Joyce’s industrial terrorism a superb opportunity for Gillard and Labor
On the question of how to handle the Qantas disputes there are no easy choices for Labor, but Alan Joyce’s act of industrial terrorism is a superb opportunity for a government under siege, writes Bernard Keane.
Joyce: Qantas passengers now have ‘certainty’
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has told Alan Kohler on ABC’s Inside Business that grounding flights would bring ‘certainty’ to customers and that the airline’s business travellers have strongly endorsed its action. A union spokesperson has called this ‘insane’, reports Ben Sandilands.
Qantas AGM turns into a ferocious showdown
With calls to save Qantas from “Asianisation” outside, and at times angry attacks on management defence of its decisions inside, the Qantas AGM turned nasty.
Qantas dispute: so much for the Prime Minister’s powers of persuasion
Last week Prime Minister Julia Gillard urged the unions and Qantas to negotiate a settlement of their disagreements. To say that none have been reached is something of an understatement, writes Ben Sandilands.
Qantas strikes: the players, who’s right and where will it end?
With the PM Julia Gillard and the Tourism Minister Martin Ferguson threatening to heavy the Qantas unions, what is going on in the disputes, and how did we get here?
Qantas grounds jets as the highway becomes a traveller option
Qantas is grounding five domestic jets (four 737s and one 767) from Monday, effectively cancelling 97 flights a week in a move its group CEO Alan Joyce says will allow it to maintain schedule reliability across the rest of its network.
