Qantas has completed the first phase of a planned contraction of its money losing international operations, scaling back flights on the Kangaroo route to London and replacing Buenos Aires services with flights to Santiago, Chile. The carrier ended flights to London via Hong Kong and Bangkok on Sunday, leaving daily return services from Sydney and
For all the fuss over Qantas’s so far failed attempts at launching a premium airline in Asia, it is clear that Jetstar is the main game for the Qantas Group in Asia. Today’s announcement of the launch of Jetstar Hong Kong in partnership with China Eastern now means the Jetstar brand has footprints in three
Two weeks after abandoning plans for an Asia-based premium carrier, Qantas has secured a deal at the other end of the market and will set up a Jetstar franchise in Hong Kong. The $198 million agreement with codeshare partner China Eastern Airlines, announced today, will see Jetstar Hong Kong operational by 2013, Qantas said. The
Failed Air Australia will be liquidated, after the airline’s creditors voted to wind up the company at a meeting in Brisbane today. Administrator Mark Mentha of Korda Mentha said the airline’s 350 staff would get most of their entitlements paid out under the federal government’s General Employee Entitlements and Redundancy Scheme (GEERS) but other creditors
Boeing has backed Airbus in its dispute with the European Union over the EU’s carbon pricing scheme, a rare moment of agreement between two arch-rivals who remain locked in a bitter trade dispute over government subsidies. “This is not about Boeing and Airbus,” Boeing CEO Jim Albaugh told Reuters during an aviation industry meeting in
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has issued draft approval of a codesharing alliance between Virgin Australia and Skywest aimed at tapping into lucrative mining routes in Western Australia. The ACCC said the alliance would benefit consumers by fostering competition between Virgin-Skywest and Qantas and its affiliates. The deal “will result in public benefits such
