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Australia's Qantas to make vaccines mandatory for staff
AFP, Published on 18/08/2021
» SYDNEY: Australian airline Qantas said Wednesday it would make Covid-19 vaccines mandatory for staff, as the company bids to get planes back into the skies.
Australia's Qantas to furlough 2,500 workers
AFP, Published on 03/08/2021
» SYDNEY: Australian airline Qantas announced Tuesday it will furlough 2,500 workers as coronavirus outbreaks and regional lockdowns pummel demand for flights.
Qantas to axe 2,500 more jobs
AFP, Published on 25/08/2020
» SYDNEY: Australian flag carrier Qantas announced plans Tuesday to cut almost 2,500 more jobs, just days after posting a huge annual loss as it reels from a collapse in demand caused by the coronavirus.
Australia's Qantas cuts 6,000 jobs in post-Covid restructure
AFP, Published on 25/06/2020
» SYDNEY: Australia's Qantas is cutting 6,000 staff and grounding 100 planes for at least a year in a US$10 billion cost-cutting blitz in response to the Covid crisis, the airline announced Thursday.
Australian airline Qantas to cut all international flights
AFP, Published on 19/03/2020
» SYDNEY: Australia's biggest airline Qantas said Thursday it would halt all international flights and suspend 20,000 staff in response to the coronavirus pandemic, days after the island nation's other main carrier Virgin shut its overseas routes.
Cathay 'faces reality' with budget airline buy, say analysts
AFP, Published on 02/04/2019
» HONG KONG: Cathay Pacific's purchase of rival HK Express was an inevitable plunge into the no-frills market as the premier marque belatedly faces the reality that it can no longer ignore the budget sector, analysts say.
JAL to launch low-cost carrier ahead of 2020 Tokyo Olympics
AFP, Published on 14/05/2018
» TOKYO: Japan Airlines (JAL) on Monday announced plans to launch a budget airline, hoping to take advantage of an expected expansion in the nation's low-cost market ahead of the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.
Australia boy, 12, runs away to Bali using family credit card
AFP, Published on 24/04/2018
» SYDNEY: Australian police were Tuesday investigating how a 12-year-old boy managed to fly alone to the Indonesian island of Bali and spend four days at a resort using his parents' credit card.
Clipboard sucked into plane engine: Australia regulator
AFP, Published on 27/02/2018
» SYDNEY: A clipboard left behind during pre-flight checks was sucked into the jet engine of an international passenger plane, Australian safety regulators said Tuesday.