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.
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Booked a holiday with Qantas? Looks as if your booking is safe
Many things about the future of Qantas are never going to be decided today, but your holiday bookings on that airline look safe, no matter what.
Union stirs up new turbulence for Qantas
With the Qantas lockout of more than 80,000 customers without notice coming to an end this afternoon, the dispute that a 2am Fair Work Australia ruling appeared to solve is already hitting new turbulence.
Qantas, safety body at odds over ‘wheels up’ approach
Qantas and safety investigator the ATSB have disagreed over an incident in which a Qantas 767 Cityflyer descended to 500 feet radio altitude with its wheels still up a mere 1500 metres north of Sydney Airport.
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 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.
Qantas v unions: a last minute reprieve for passengers
There are three sets of actions underway at Qantas authorized by Fair Work Australia after the respective unions met all of the tests of negotiating in good faith with management in seeking timely negotiated enterprise bargaining outcomes.
Qantas goes to war with its pilots and shoots down John Travolta
John Travolta is the early casualty in the social media dogfight that has broken out between Qantas management and its pilots, with Qantas spiking Travolta’s ads spruiking the quality of Qantas pilots.
Pilots will hold Qantas to truth in advertising
Qantas international pilots today decided to campaign on the issue of keeping the airline Australian, rather than engaging in lawful strike action in support of their pay claims, reports Ben Sandilands.
No Qantas strike, but a bit of ‘This is your kamikaze speaking …’
The so-called “kamikaze” pilots at Qantas this morning announced they wouldn’t immediately strike over their unresolved EBA negotiations with the airline.
Senate inquiry takes tougher approach on pilot training, safety
In lay language, the Senate inquiry into pilot training and airline safety has made a set of recommendations that would put Australia on the same page as American lawmakers in resisting the dangerous things desperate airlines have been doing to cut corners.
Qantas acting the fuel, err fool, on its Dallas route
The new Qantas flights between Australia and Dallas-Fort Worth have already inconvenienced scores of passengers.
The Qantas list of woes continues to grow
Qantas is getting hammered, it seems, from all quarters.
Qantas looking to fill the ‘can’t stand Jetstar’ gap
Qantas is now working on a low-cost yet high-quality Asia-based, single-aisle airline for those travellers who can’t tolerate low-quality, low-fare Jetstar.
Pilots closer to industrial action as Qantas efficiencies bite
The Australian and International Pilots Association is holding back on filing for a ballot of members to approve resorting to protected industrial action pending last-ditch negotiations over a new EBA.
Cadets grounded as Qantas strategy questioned by Senate
The Qantas strategy to shift jobs and tax obligations offshore through Jetstar to Singapore and New Zealand are in disarray after the low-cost subsidiary was forced to ground cadet pilots.
Qantas pilot jobs are at risk: email
An email file copied to Crikey contradicts Qantas claims that pilot jobs are not at risk in the current dispute between the group and the Australian and International Pilots Association.
Qantas pilots dispute getting more bitter by the moment
The rhetoric in the Qantas pilots dispute today is more bitter than anything heard in airline circles since the infamous pilot strike of 1989.
Pilots protest over Qantas skimping on fuel
Qantas pilots are having a tussle with the company over what they claim is pressure on junior captains to load less “discretionary” fuel above what it sees as “normal” fuel for whatever route they are about to fly.
Tips and rumours
A source in the Brisbane Airport Control Tower has told a friend of a friend that Elton John’s private jet very nearly caused mayhem as the bewigged bespectacled crooner fled Brisvegas yesterday, after a rather bizarre gig at a regional Queensland town no one had previously heard of. Our source says Sir E’s plane rolled […]
Qantas pilots file complaint on duty hours ‘rort’
Qantas pilots have sought an urgent definition on safety grounds of flight duty hours in an overnight filing with the Civil Aviation Safety Authority’s Industry Complaints Commissioner, Michael Hart.
Home truths about those Qantas staples
Qantas knows that the illegal stapling of electrical cabling in a 747-400 was done by one of its own employees and not in maintenance performed while the jet was being overhauled in Singapore last year.
CASA v Qantas: justice delayed
Once the CDPP gets the Haneef review out of the way perhaps he will deal with a much more material threat to air passengers than a person who didn’t participate in the botched attack on Glasgow Airport.
