All Qantas articles – Page 3
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NewsQantas, Airbus invest $200 million to develop Australian SAF industry
Qantas and Airbus will invest up to $200 million to ramp up the establishment of a sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) industry in Australia, as part of the airline’s broader environmental ambitions.
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NewsEngine static ports left covered on transpacific Qantas 787
Qantas and Boeing are revising aircraft maintenance procedures after one of the carrier’s 787-9s flew from Melbourne to Los Angeles without having the covers of its engine static ports removed. All four ports – two on each of the General Electric GEnx engines’ fan cowls – had been taped over, ...
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NewsQantas to launch Project Sunrise flights in 2025 as airline locks in A350 orders
Qantas has confirmed its order for 12 Airbus A350-1000s for its ultra-long-haul Project Sunrise initiative, with the first flights from Sydney to New York and London slated for a late-2025 launch.
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NewsQantas international restart gains momentum with India, South Korea expansion
Qantas is seeing a rebound in international travel demand in the near term, with the group now expecting international capacity in April to surpass earlier forecasts.
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Airline BusinessMore airlines able to look forward with confidence about recovery
A notable theme over the past week has been the shift in global airline narrative towards renewal, as more markets emerge from the worst of the Covid-19 crisis.
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NewsQantas targets 25% emissions cut by 2030 in push towards net-zero
Qantas expects to cut emissions by 25% by 2030, as part of a broader goal to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050.
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NewsQantas ramps up Alliance E190 deployment in ‘material increase’
Australia’s Alliance Aviation expects a “material increase” in Embraer E190 flying activity with Qantas, following the latter’s decision to add more regional jets through July.
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NewsQantas ‘Project Sunrise’ A350 talks ongoing as Airbus touts widebody family credentials
Discussions with Qantas about firming up its order for Airbus A350-1000s to operate ultra-long-haul flights are still ongoing, but Airbus is optimistic of the outcome.
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NewsQantas cuts domestic capacity again amid border reopening delays
Qantas Group has further trimmed domestic capacity through end-March, amid an indefinitely delayed border reopening in Western Australia.
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Airline BusinessAsia-Pacific set to enter third year of international travel woes as Omicron hits
This week provided has provided a reminder of how fragile the Covid-19 recovery is the Asia-Pacific region, where an already tentative return of international travel is being hit by the spread of Omicron variant of Covid-19.
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NewsQantas, Jetstar slash capacity through March amid Omicron surge
Qantas and its low-cost unit Jetstar will make significant capacity cuts until end-March, as Australia reports a spike in coronavirus infections caused by the more contagious Omicron variant.
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Airline BusinessAirlines keep eyes on the summer prize despite winter worries
It has been almost two decades since there was a direct transatlantic flight operating out of St Louis. That Lufthansa should announce plans to serve the Missouri city in 2022 at a time when the Omicron variant is casting such a pall over near-term demand illustrates the continued faith airlines have in the next northern hemisphere summer.
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NewsQantas expects stiff domestic competition, as international restart stalls
Qantas expects domestic competition to heat up over the next six months as state borders reopen, but has remained upbeat about its prospects.
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NewsQantas flags A$1.1 billion loss in ‘one of the worst halves of the entire pandemic’
Qantas has forecast that an underlying loss for the six months to 31 December in excess of A$1.1 billion ($787 million), reflecting the substantial impact from long-drawn domestic lockdowns and travel restrictions.
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NewsQantas provisionally selects A320neo and A220 to replace Boeing fleet
Australian carrier Qantas has provisionally selected the Airbus A320neo family and A220-300 as its preferred option to modernise its single-aisle fleet, potentially taking up to 134 aircraft.
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NewsQantas marks return to continental Europe with Rome non-stop
Qantas will relaunch seasonal flights to Rome in June 2022, after an absence of over 18 years, marking its return to continental Europe.
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NewsQantas to operate London flights with sustainable aviation fuel
Qantas has signed a purchase agreement with fuel giant BP for 10 million litres of blended sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which it will use on flights between Australia and London in the new year.
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NewsQantas to convert two A330s to freighters amid cargo boom
Qantas will convert two Airbus A330-200s into freighters in 2022 amid a boom in the cargo market driven by a “significant shift” towards e-commerce.
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NewsQantas 787 unable to retract landing gear after pins left in place
Two landing gear pins that were not removed from a Qantas aircraft before it left the gate resulted in the inability to retract landing gear after takeoff, an investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau (ATSB) has revealed.
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NewsQantas confirms Darwin as Perth replacement on direct London route
Darwin will temporarily replace Perth as the stop-off on Qantas Airways’ direct Australia-London services, the airline confirmed on 8 October.