Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has outlined his airline’s ‘Airport of the Future’ initiative, which plans to speed up the check-in and baggage claim processes for domestic passengers while at the same time increasing terminal efficiency. “Our research with our domestic customers has told us that airport check-in today is nothing less than ‘a point of
The International Transport Workers Federation was expected to pass a motion on November 11 which could impose restrictions on loading and unloading of baggage on Jetstar flights around Australasia. The ITF says that Jetstar and parent company Qantas have failed to act on a number of grievances raised by the Transport Workers Union, such as
Qatar Airways was named ‘World’s Leading Airline – Business Class’ at the 16th World Travel Awards in London on November 10. It is the second year in a row that the airline has won the award, which is decided by thousands of travel professionals from over 180,000 travel agencies, transport companies and tourism organisations in
Jetstar has announced that it will operate additional flights to Hobart and Launceston over the summer season to cater for additional demand. Between January 2-31 and March 1-27, the airline will operate three additional services each week on the Brisbane-Launceston route, which will bring it up to a daily service during those periods. The airline
Tiger Airways Australia has announced that it will start services from Adelaide to Brisbane from March 2010, continuing a set of new route announcements by the Singaporean owned carrier. The carrier will operate a daily service on the route from March 28 2010, with launch fares starting from $98 one way, and comes after the
Professional engineers at Qantas have voted to impose overtime and out-of-hours callout bans after reaching an impasse with the airline on wage negotiations. Members of the Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers, Australia (APESMA) in Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, which represents approximately 130 professional engineers at Qantas, voted in favour of the bans on
