The High Court of Australia dismissed Qantas’s appeal against an earlier judgement by the Federal Court that the sacking of 1,683 ground staff back in 2020 was a breach of the Fair Work Act. Background to High Court decision This is an important judgement not just because it confirms that...

Emirates flies three times a day the 14 hours between Sydney and Dubai. Two of those flights have used A380s, with the third service a Boeing 777-300. But that all changes in about 6 weeks’ time From 4 November 2023, flights EK416/417 will also be flown by the 489-seated Airbus...

Jetstar needs to build a few ‘influential journalist’ alerts into its communication algorithm when communicating with passengers. The AFR is reporting today that one of its senior Journalists, Jennifer Hewitt was emailed late in August advising that flight vouchers aquired during the pandemic would expire on 6 September. Trying to...

Reports are emerging that Emirates will return to the Adelaide – Dubai route in mid-2024. Even more excitingly, it is speculated to debut its new Airbus A350-900s on the route. Emirates ceased flying to Adelaide in 2020 due to the restrictions of the pandemic. As reported by ET, it is...

It’s been known for some time that Ali Al Bakar at Qatar Airways, and former CEO of Qantas, Alan Joyce, don’t see eye-to-eye. At times, that has been on public display. But what we didn’t know is that it could descend into tit-for-tat retribution for Qantas staff. Qantas Staff discounts...

Sam Charmand, up until now the Chief Information Officer at Qantas and head of some 500 staff, has ‘stepped away‘ from his position, just as it is expected the airline will need to make a major investment in customer-facing technology. One of the major criticisms over the last few months...

I’ve just spent a couple of nights in Christchurch, New Zealand. I haven’t been here for quite a few years. I can’t find the precise date in my digital diary, which means it must be before 2007, definitely before the earthquake. The devastation it has caused to the city is...

In an announcement just released, Qantas reveals that the Board will bring forward the retirement of Alan Joyce as Managing Director and Group CEO effective tomorrow, Wednesday, 6 September to be exact. He was scheduled to leave in November, bringing his retirement date forward by two months. CEO Designate Vanessa...

Although LATAM is still only flying from Sydney to Santiago via Auckland, it has just started direct flights from Melbourne over this last weekend. That’s after a more than three-year break during the pandemic. That period also saw Delta Airlines take a 20% stake in LATAM. It then gave the...

Increased flights between the USA and Australia on United are only two months away. Although announced back in April, the new routes and frequencies start in roughly two months’ time, on 30 October 2023. These flights will become direct competition for Qantas, flying to similar destinations. United is also a...

The cost to Australians to visit Brazil has a chequered history. It went down during the Olympics in 2016, then back up, then was suspended in mid-2019, and then was going to be back on in October 2023, and has now been put back to 10 January 2024. Mind you,...

Qantas and Alan Joyce can just not catch a break at the moment. But if the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is correct that Qantas kept selling already cancelled flights, then neither should they. Some opinion makers are already calling for CEO Alan Joyce to resign now, to prevent...

Regional Express or REX are the usually quiet Australian domestic airline market performers. Mainly a regional player, they expanded into domestic capital city flying just prior to the pandemic. Like all airlines, they suffered but were paid by the Australian Government to retain some of their regional routes, throughout COVID-19...