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11/13/09 Aircraft engineers at Qantas began industrial action today in support of improved pay and working conditions. The 190 professional engineers, members of the Association of Professional Engineers Scientists and Managers of Australia (APESMA), have placed indefinite bans on overtime and on attending out of hours calls between 5pm and 9am daily.
22 April,08 Qantas sues Union responsible for March passengers hell. Passengers from Sydney to Perth, Northern Territory to South Australia to Brisbane. Thousands of passengers effected by baggage handlers, many had to leave airport without luggage.
17 April,09 Qantas, snakes on a plane. dailymail.uk
14 April, 2009 Qantas announced today they will ground 10 planes and layoff 1,750 employees. Profit down 500 million Australian dollars ($364.3 million).
3/29/09 Stike by Qantas employees, Sydney airport at standstill, see Sydney airport for details. Stiking workers told they will be docked four hours in pay. According to Qantas, contractors underwent high-level security checks. Qantas is expected to make a public statement shortly.
Qantas to slash 90 management jobs,
13/2/09 Qantas, Three hour wildcat luggage handlers strike, Melbourne. Passengers told to leave bags at airport!
12/3/08 British Airways and Qantas in merger deal. Already pursuing a revenue-sharing deal with American Airlines and Spain’s Iberia SA, exploring a dual-listed company structure with Qantas.
Remember, Qantas is one of the few airlines with the A380 on certain routes.
12/1/08 Quantas Airways, expect more layoffs, pairing down, tax bill and passenger drop off. Capacity will be reduced, less flights for us. Next 18 months grounding 10 aircraft and planned growth will be slashed from 10 per cent to 2 per cent next financial year. Qantas announced in July that it would lay off 1500 workers by Christmas, shelve plans to hire 1200 staff, ground up to 22 aircraft and close overseas call centres.
10/29/08 Qantas jet 'flew blind' across Pacific telegraph.co.uk
QANTAS Airways will reimburse all passengers on board the plane that suffered a terrifying plunge this week, tossing travellers around the cabin and injuring dozens. A spokesman said today every passenger would receive a refund of their airfare and a travel voucher equal to the cost of a flight between Australia and London.
10/18/08 Qantas and V Australia are a step closer to running in-flight mobile phone systems Both airlines already have announced plans to allow mobile phone, BlackBerry and smartphone usage on some flights using technology developed by UK pioneer, AeroMobile and Panasonic Avionics. itnews.com.au
10/7/08 10/8/08 Qantas threatened flight disruptions and delays during the school holiday period may be avoided following a breakthrough yesterday morning in the industrial feud between air traffic controllers and Airservices Australia over wages and overtime.smh.com.au
10/6/08 Pickings are rich on the long haul to Johannesburg. business.smh.com.au
9/26/08 POLICE and federal investigators have raided the Melbourne home of Australia's most infamous "mile high club" member, former Qantas flight attendant and callgirl Lisa Robertson as part of a bankruptcy fraud probe.news.com.au
9/24/08 Having ordered more than $25 billion worth of new aircraft in recent years, the flagship carrier appears likely to lift that figure past $35 billion by as early as the end of this year. news.com.au
9/23/08 HUNDREDS of passengers were evacuated and flights were delayed at Brisbane Airport after three Qantas passengers inadvertently walked into a secure area..news.com.au
9/10/08 QANTAS has refused to follow the lead of Singapore Airlines, which yesterday lowered its fuel surcharge on tickets in response to falling jet fuel prices. theaustralian.news.com.au
8/21/08 A380 will arrive in Sydney, Australia on 21 September before operating its first passenger flight, between Melbourne and Los Angles, on 20 October." theage.com.au
8/20/08 Qantas announces a huge profit jump in its full-year results, the airline's engineers have accepted a new enterprise bargaining agreement (EBA) offered to them, bringing months of industrial action to an end.
8/9/08 Qantas's decision to send planes to Malaysia was scrutinized after the first aircraft sent there two months ago came back with a list of defects, the Sydney Morning Herald reported today, without citing anyone. The plane was grounded in Melbourne on Aug. 7 because of noise from an air-conditioning fault, it said. bloomberg.com
8/6/08 Qantas cabin crew have ruled out any industrial action over recent security scares, despite asking to meet company officials after another of the airline's jets was forced to make an emergency landing. .businessspectator.com.au
8/4/08 Qantas 'safest airline in the world' - CEO. .nzherald.co.nz
8/2/08 A Qantas 767 has been forced to turn around and make an emergency landing at Sydney Airport due to a hydraulic leak, the airline says..smh.com.au/
7/29/08 Qantas 747 evidence points to exploding oxygen cylinder. atwonline.com
7/28/08 Voice recorder gives no clues on holed Qantas plane. uk.reuters.com
7/29/08 Safety and survival, the two wings of an airline. THEAGE.COM
7/27/08 Pilot relies on skill to land crippled jumbo. smh.com.au
7/25/08 Terror on Qantas flight
hole in fuselage.
7/23/08 former Qantas freight vice-president in the US Maylaysia Sun
7/22/08 Qantas is sticking to its guns after refusing to allow a 14-year-old boy to fly alone with his 2-year-old sister, leaving the distressed toddler unable to be reunited with her family. nzherald.co.nz
7/18/08 Airline Qantas to cut 1,500 jobs bbcnews.co.uk
7/7/08 Exclusive Daily Telegraph photographs reveal employees, understood to be Qantas company executives, being trained to handle baggage to prepare for looming strikes. .news.com.au
4 July 08 Qantas warns of more cuts to come. BrisbaneTimes
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2 July 08 Qantas Union to Temporarily Call off Strike; Talks to Continue bloomberg.com
2 July 08 Qantas staff fly with BlackBerry australianit.news.com.au/
6/30/08 Monday it had postponed talks with striking aircraft engineers until Wednesday to give unions more time to prepare.ukreuters.com
6/27/08 Negotiations set for Monday afp.google
6/27/08 Sooner or later for Dixon? smh.com.au
6/27/08 QANTAS has agreed to resume talks with its maintenance engineers in an effort to resolve the pay dispute that has caused strike action this week.news.com.au
6/26/08 Australian airline Qantas said on Thursday it had to cancel dozens more flights following strikes by maintenance engineers earlier this week and warned of further disruption Friday and Saturday. afpgoogle
6/26/08 Qantas Airways, gets nastier, blacklisted workers theage.com.au
6/24/08 Qantas strike delays hundreds in Perth. Passengers on the cancelled Sydney flight were being diverted to a Melbourne flight, and some said they had been delayed by up to three hours. the age
6/24/08 Qantas Airways, 18 flights on Tuesday and was reportedly moving critical maintenance tasks overseas as a campaign of strikes by engineers widened to the country's west. reuters
6/24/08 Qantas Airways chief target of youtube campaingn smh.com
Qantas Airway to close Vic maintenance base theage.com.au
6/15/08 New deal for frequent flyers smh.au
6 June 08 Qantas Airways cuts flights and sacks staff smh.com
A QANTAS Airways international flight has been delayed for almost 24 hours due to mechanical problems. Angry business class passengers on the Singapore-bound flight QF31 had to be subdued by airport police officers this afternoon after they became abusive towards airline staff. news.com.au
3 June, Qantas Airways and Unions resume wage talks theage.com
2 June 08, Qantas Airways to get premium economy seats theage
5/31/08 Qantas Airways, all executives pay will be frozen with the decreased services to result in staff cuts. Meanwhile, Standard Poors has cuts its outlook on Qantas Airways to negative. skynews
5/30/08 New Zealand services under scrutiny in Qantas Airways operations review
5/30/08 Qantas Airways, engineers in Sydney walked off the job for four hours yesterday morning, while their colleagues in Brisbane stopped work for four hours last night. Melbourne engineers were due to strike for four hours this morning as part of a rolling campaign for a 5 per cent increase. smh.com
5/28/08 Qantas Airways grounds jets over soaring fuel bill, plans to exit several low-yielding routes, including the Sydney-Gold Coast route in order to cut costs. Plans to "ground" two Boeing 767s, retire one ageing 737 and speed up the retirement of its fuel-guzzling fleet of four 747-300s. smh.com
Qantas Airways increased air fares for the second time in less than a month in response to record fuel prices. It will put up the cost of an international flight by 4% and domestic fares by about 3%.
19/5/08 Man caught viewing kiddy porn in Qantas Airrways lounge. brisbanetimes.com
May 8 08, VP sentenced to 8 months in jail For Cargo Cartel Role aviationweek
4/19/08 THE on-time performance of most airlines flying the east coast was again brought down by weather in February, with only Qantas managing to top 80 per cent in both the arrival and departure categories. Airport closures saw Jetstar fall well below the average to produce the second worst figures for departures after Queensland's MacAir and the worst arrival statistics. Only 73 per cent of its planes left on time while less than 71 per cent arrived on time. This compared with 79.2 per cent on-time departures at Virgin Blue and 75.3 per cent on-time arrivals. MacAir headed the field for flight cancellations with 3.5 per cent of its flights failing to take off, compared with 2.9 per cent at Virgin, 2.4 per cent at Qantaslink and 2.1 per cent at Jetstar.
4/10/08 Baggage handlers want you to take less in your luggage brisbanetimes
3/31/08 Qantas monopoly coming to an end. Brisbanetimes.com
3/31/08 You will be able to write and receive emails and sms via cellphones. AeroMobile communications technology will be installed on Boeing 767-300 and Airbus A330-200 aircraft operated by Qantas on domestic flights in Australia.per turbonews
3/27/08 Jet bounced on runway at Darwin airport. per news.com
3/20/08 Union campaigns for lower bag weights at airport. per abcnews.net.ai
The stewards wore white uniforms, female passengers wore mink coats and the flight from Sydney to London took four days including, six refueling stops, two overnight, stays and a total of 55 hrs in the air!
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