This Month
Qantas ends Joyce’s Asian folly as Hudson narrows focus
By shutting Jetstar Asia, Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson is showing investors that she too will home in on the markets that deliver the biggest returns.
May
The $121m Qantas conundrum that will reshape union legal action
The TWU bid to be paid more than $100 million in fines by Qantas for illegal sacking 2000 ground staff could spur a wave of litigation against large companies.
An Alan Joyce book is being pitched to potential publishers
The former Qantas CEO’s new agent has confirmed plans for a memoir on his corporate career.
January
Are you flying on a 22-year-old Qantas plane?
From poor planning to belt tightening and production delays, there are plenty of reasons why the airline’s fleet is ageing. But it’s making flying worse.
December 2024
‘Albo knows best’: Inside Labor’s discontent with PM
A series of missteps has raised questions about Anthony Albanese’s judgment. Is he too confident in his own instincts?
November 2024
We all love an upgrade, but MPs need their wings clipped: AFR readers
Readers raised concerns about conflicts of interest, as the scandal engulfing Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and his Qantas perks spread to the Coalition.
Domino’s CEO exits; Coalition attacks Joyce; Trump’s top 5 tech bros
Read everything that’s happened in the news so far today.
No quid pro quo in Dutton’s travel on Rinehart jet: McKenzie
The Coalition frontbencher is likely to update her own public disclosures over flight records within days.
Joe Aston on Qantas | Supermarket profit squeeze | Super sector’s sleeper threat
This week, James and Anthony welcome guest star Joe Aston to talk Qantas and politics, reveal why there’s fresh bad news for supermarkets, and ask what’s bothering our biggest super funds.
Flight risk: Albanese’s Qantas saga hurts repair job with voters
The prime minister wants to show he is acting on cost of living, but the focus remains firmly on his flight upgrades and the fading prospect of a pre-Christmas rate cut.
October 2024
Joe Aston on Qantas: ‘This is a story about power in the shadows’
This week on The Fin podcast, Joe Aston on what went wrong for the airline, why it has an oversized influence in Canberra, and the extraordinary perks of a Qantas board seat.
Albanese says he never called Qantas boss for flight upgrades
The leadership of the newly established National Anti-Corruption Commission, including Commissioner Paul Brereton, have been given access to Qantas’ invite-only Chairman’s Lounge.
Albanese faces calls for probe into flight upgrades
David Pocock and Peter Dutton have both called for a probe into whether Anthony Albanese breached the ministerial code of conduct while he was transport minister.
Why Joyce became Albanese’s travel agent
Readers’ letters on Anthony Albanese’s Qantas upgrades, Santos’ climate claims and the Coalition split on nuclear power
Qantas upgrades leave PM exposed at the worst possible time
Ultimately, it adds up to another lost week for a government already running out of time to sell its message.
Albanese did not declare Qantas flight upgrades given to his ex-wife
The prime minister did not declare upgrades gifted to his former wife on flights they took for personal travel to Europe, Los Angeles and Honolulu.
PM in tangle over Qantas lounge plus ones
Both Anthony Albanese’s fiancee and son are members of Qantas’ exclusive Chairman’s Lounge despite the prime minister saying his son was effectively his “plus one”.
Qantas ponders a future without advertising guru Todd Sampson
Thirteen months since customer and shareholder anger was at its peak, one director remains a lightning rod for investor dissatisfaction.
Qantas faces $100m-plus hit for illegal sackings
The case is shaping up as the biggest industrial relations loss in Australia’s history.
Qantas’ Todd Sampson got a proxy pardon. Others aren’t so lucky
ISS has provided multiple perplexingly inconsistent arguments for how to deal with the Qantas board’s culpability in the recent airline’s morality bypass.