All Qantas articles – Page 13
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Qantas names new heads for loyalty, customer roles
Qantas Airways has named a new head for its loyalty unit, as well as new chief customer officer.
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747, A380 operators rank low on transpacific fuel efficiency
Operating four-engined jets such as the Boeing 747 and Airbus A380 has placed Qantas, Korean Air and Asiana Airlines at the bottom of a recent ranking of airline fuel efficiency on transpacific flights.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Auspicious year ahead for China-Australia routes
This year will see further capacity growth on Australia-China routes in response to strong demand and the open skies agreement between the two countries.
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Hrdlicka to leave Qantas Group
Former Jetstar group chief executive Jayne Hrdlicka will leave the Qantas Group in March 2018 to become the chief executive of dairy processor A2 Milk.
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Pilot shortage alive and well in Vietnam: Jetstar Pacific
A shortage of qualified pilots remains an issue Vietnam low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific.
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Vietnam market 'over stimulated': Jetstar Pacific
Vietnamese low-cost carrier Jetstar Pacific says domestic passenger growth has slowed in 2017, to a rate of 14-15% compared with 30% per annum previously.
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Boeing focused on 777-8 tweaks to meet Qantas requirement
Boeing is focusing on tweaks it may be able to make to the 777-8 to meet Qantas’s requirement for an aircraft that can fly nonstop from Australia’s east coast to Europe.
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Qantas 'excited' about NMA and assisting Boeing with definition
Qantas sees the prospect of Boeing developing its proposed New Mid-market Airplane (NMA) specifically for short/medium-haul routes as "fantastic" and is working with Seattle to help define the design.
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Qantas chief downplays prospect of further A380s
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has joked that he would have to be "drunk" to order any additional Airbus A380s, and also indicated that the airline does not intend to take any of its remaining orders for the type.
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Qantas to order A350 or 777X in 2019 after ultra-long-range evaluation
Qantas expects to choose in 2019 between the Airbus A350 and Boeing 777X for the aircraft to meet its requirement to introduce nonstop flights between eastern Australia and London by 2022.
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Qantas to have 80 wi-fi equipped aircraft by end-2018
Qantas plans to have 80 of its domestically-operated Boeing 737-800s and Airbus A330s equipped with on-board wi-fi connectivity by the end of 2018.
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Qantas lifts first half outlook on stronger Q1 revenue
Qantas expects its underlying pre-tax profit for the six months to December 2017 to come in between A$900 million ($693 million) and A$950 million, aided by stronger unit revenues during the first quarter of the 2018 fiscal year.
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PICTURES: Qantas takes delivery of first 787-9
Qantas has taken delivery of its first Boeing 787-9 at a ceremony held at Boeing’s delivery centre in Everett.
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Qantas commits to use biofuels at LAX from 2020
Qantas has struck an agreement with US bio-energy company SG Preston to use biofuels on its flights from Los Angeles International airport from 2020.
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Qantas to refinance A$350m debt with flexible loan facility
Qantas will refinance A$350 million ($272 million) of debt due in the 2018 fiscal year using an innovative new facility that will allow it to change the pool of aircraft that will act as security.
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Qantas to up transtasman capacity as Emirates cuts back
Qantas will add more services from Melbourne and Brisbane to Auckland from March 2018, as alliance partner Emirates cuts back on its transtasman tag flights.
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ROUTES: Tourism Australia to target new US, Asia links
Government body Tourism Australia is looking to boost air links from the United States and Asia to build further on the strong momentum from those markets.
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Fuel crisis easing at Auckland airport
Airlines are now able to uplift 80% of their usual jet fuel allocations at Auckland airport, with signs that the crisis caused by the severing of a fuel pipeline is starting to ease.
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PICTURE: First Qantas 787-9 breaks cover
Qantas’s first Boeing 787-9 has emerged from the manufacturer’s paint shop, resplendent in the carrier’s new ‘Silveroo’ livery.
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AnalysisANALYSIS: Qantas's Singapore-London redux tightens Asia focus
Qantas’s reversion to operating its Sydney-London services via Singapore says much more about its Asian ambitions than its legacy focus on flying to Europe.