Qantas flight turns back to New Zealand after bomb scare
A Qantas flight from New Zealand to Australia was forced to turn back Sunday following reports of a suspicious item on board, but the feared device turned out to be a standard fitting.
A Qantas flight from New Zealand to Australia was forced to turn back Sunday following reports of a suspicious item on board, but the feared device turned out to be a standard fitting.
This snake on a plane had a turbulent flight. Stunned Qantas Airways passengers watched out their windows as a large python clung to a plane’s wing during a two-hour flight from Australia’s northeastern city of Cairns to Papua New Guinea.
Australia’s Qantas removed one of its Airbus A380 superjumbos from service Wednesday after discovering “minor cracks” in its wings, but said that there was no risk to flight safety.
Seven passengers were injured and four needed treatment in hospital after a Qantas A380 flight from London to Singapore was rattled by strong turbulence, the Australian airline said on Sunday.
Embattled Australian carrier Qantas said Sunday it would splurge Aus$20 ($20.7) million on 100,000 free air tickets in a bid to win back passengers after the shock two-day grounding of its global fleet.
Australia’s Qantas sent a plane aloft Monday, hours after a government tribunal ordered an end to a destructive industrial dispute that grounded its fleet and sparked passenger and political fury.
CANBERRA, Australia—An Australian court early Monday ended the strikes and employee lockout that had abruptly grounded Qantas Airways and stranded tens of thousands of passengers worldwide. The airline planned to speak soon on when flights will resume. The arbitration court heard more than 14 hours of testimony from the airline, the Australian government and unions [...]
Virgin Australia is boosting passenger capacity and enlisting the help of its airline partners to carry people stranded by the extraordinary grounding of Qantas’s fleet, it said Sunday.
Embattled carrier Qantas was forced to cancel or delay more than 70 flights on Monday as aircraft engineers were to walk off the job for four hours in the latest round of strike action to hit the airline.
SYDNEY—International pilots with Australia’s Qantas were Wednesday preparing to vote on whether to strike in what would be the first industrial action by the carrier’s long-haul crew in 45 years. The pilots’ union has asked the government’s national workplace relations tribunal, Fair Work Australia, for permission to hold a ballot of its members on taking [...]
