Qantas has announced contingency plans to mitigate planned strike action by the Transport Workers Union (TWU) next week, when up to 3800 baggage handlers, ground staff, catering, freight and other transport employees will conduct a series of four hour work stoppages across Australia on September 20. The airline will use larger aircraft, consolidate services and
Qantas will next month begin trialling streaming inflight entertainment to Apple iPad tablet computers on a single 767-300 in domestic service. The world first six week ‘Q Streaming’ trial will run from late October through to early December and will allow passengers to view content such as movies streamed to the iPads ‘on demand’. Each
The Transport Workers Union (TWU) has announced a series of four hour work stoppages for its Qantas workers on September 20, with up to 3800 union-aligned baggage handlers, ground staff, catering, freight and other transport employees across Australia taking action over a five per cent pay increase and various other job security concerns. Qantas has
V Australia has won Best in Region (Asia and Australasia), Best Food and Beverage and Best IFE User Interface at the 2011 Airline Passenger Experience Association (APEX) Passenger Choice Awards in Washington, Seattle, taking out three of the 14 possible categories. “V Australia would like to thank our guests who took the time to vote
RedQ, RedQ Executive Express, RedSky and OneAsia are just some of the names that Qantas is considering for its new Asia based premium airline, Fairfax media reports have revealed. While Qantas is yet to make a firm decision on which name to go with, the airline has lodged a number of trademark applications for the
China Southern airlines is increasing its Guangzhou to Brisbane flight schedule to four flights per week, as well as adding a continuing same flight connection to Beijing, from October 30. The Guangzhou based carrier will continue to operate Airbus A330-300s on all Brisbane services, offering four first class and 24 business class flatbed seats, 48
