Qantas is set to begin new four times weekly services between Brisbane and Tokyo Narita from August 1 2015, and has announced it will shift its daily Sydney-Tokyo flights from Narita to Haneda from July 31 2015. And a further three times weekly service to Narita, operating on alternate days to the Brisbane flights, will
Air New Zealand chief executive Christopher Luxon has flagged capacity growth in the order of five to six per cent a year over the next five years as the airline adds a further two Boeing 787-9 aircraft to its existing order book. The airline announced the order for two more Dreamliners, which are due for delivery
Qantas’s international operations are expected to make a positive contribution to the airline’s return to profitability in the first half of 2014/15 as the carrier makes “rapid progress” with its three-year, $2 billion cost cutting program. Despite the brighter outlook for the long-suffering international arm, Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce says the airline will maintain
Qantas has guided the market to an underlying profit before tax in the first half of 2014/15 in the vicinity of $300 million to $350 million amid lower fuel prices and as the airline group’s cost cutting measures bear fruit. The airline said in a statement released to the Australian stock exchange on Monday all of
Adelaide is the first Australian casualty in AirAsia X’s move to cut capacity and turn around recent losses, with the low-cost carrier to end services to the City of Churches in late January. AirAsia X’s last flight will depart Adelaide on January 25, according to the Airline Route website. The airline flagged reductions to its
Jetstar management and its Australian-based pilots are headed back to the negotiating table after the overwhelming rejection a proposed new enterprise bargaining agreement that included an 18-month pay freeze. Some 94.68 per cent of Jetstar’s Australian-based pilots who fly the low-cost carrier’s Airbus A320s, A330s and Boeing 787s voted against the EBA, the Australian
