Australia’s business elite will joint forces with its top gourmands to raise money for homeless and hungry Sydneysiders. The Qantas-sponsored “CEO CookOff” will see teams of 10 executives competing to prepare meals for some 1000 poor people. The CEOs will be assisted by 30 of Australia’s celebrity chefs, including Qantas ambassador Neil Perry, Peter Gilmore,
Cathay Pacific will push back deliveries of two Boeing 747-8 Freighters in response to weak cargo demand. The airline said it will still take delivery of four 747-8Fs next year but will delay two others to 2013. The move will cut the carrier’s cargo capacity growth in 2012 from 17 per cent to 10 per
A rare computer fault caused the sudden nose dive of a Qantas flight in 2008 that injured 119 people, an investigation by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau has concluded. The incident occurred on board Airbus A330-303 VH-QPA operating QF72 that departed Singapore for Perth on October 7 2008. While cruising at 37,000ft, one of the
Jetstar has announced plans to add 28,000 extra seats on routes to Honolulu, Bali and Thailand over the holidays. The increased capacity, which amounts to a 40 per cent increase over the same period last year, comes as the strong Australian dollar pushes record numbers of Australians to travel overseas and as budget carriers continue
Qantas has taken delivery of its 12th Airbus A380, with VH-OQL Phyllis Arnott arriving in Sydney on December after ferrying in from Toulouse via Singapore as QF6026. Qantas has said that the delivery of its 11th and 12th A380s will allow it to operate the type four times weekly Sydney-Hong Kong, plus increase Melbourne-Singapore-London services
Qantas and its engineers have reached a contract deal and are expected to present the agreement to labour umpire Fair Work Australia today. It could still be several weeks before the deal is finalised, but the agreement would end one of the three labour disputes that have badly shaken the carrier this year, leading Qantas management to
