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A flight was forced to make an emergency landing at Sydney Airport on Friday afternoon after the plane experienced “contained engine failure”.
Older Australians are set to travel overseas more than ever, and the nation’s biggest airline is muscling up to carry them.
Bridget McKenzie refuses to rule out a Senate inquiry into Qantas, its former chief executive Alan Joyce and his relationship with Anthony Albanese, days after she was forced to disclose 16 of her own flight upgrades.
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The airline says the proposed Virgin-Qatar tie-up would see industry pay and conditions undermined with imported Qatari labour.
Former Qantas chief Geoff Dixon has added his voice to the growing disquiet over politicians accepting free flight upgrades and says it may be time the practice ended.
Public servants are allowed to accrue coveted Qantas ‘status credits’ when flying for work which explains the imbalance in flights booked with Qantas over Virgin Australia.
Bridget McKenzie has disclosed 16 previously undeclared flight upgrades but her Coalition colleagues say she’s ‘safe as houses’ as the major parties call a truce.
A Coalition senator has made a startling declaration after leading the Opposition’s attack on Anthony Albanese’s alleged ties to Qantas.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has congratulated President-Elect Donald Trump as he points towards a ‘strong economic partnership’ with the future administration, despite threats of tariffs.
The Nationals MP, who was a vocal critic of Anthony Albanese’s flight upgrades with Qantas, has reportedly failed to declare more than a dozen of her own.
An explosive Federal Court judgment has laid bare the ‘extraordinary’ dysfunction in the upper echelons of a key Qantas union.
There has been a “regrettable” development after a police officer was accused of murdering a Channel 10 presenter and his Qantas flight attendant boyfriend.
Qantas has updated its requirements for assistance animals on flights after being sued for disability discrimination by a woman whose dog was not allowed on board.
Anthony Albanese has moved to reassure a caucus troubled by the distractions of his mansion purchase and upgrades furore, pledging to unveil a series of key policies that will deliver Labor an increased majority in the upcoming election.
The carrier has revealed plans for a major makeover of its A350 fleet to keep on the front foot in the fiercely competitive premium travel space.
The Qantas freebie upgrade saga has been downgraded in favour of the economy, as Australia faces an unofficial campaign of four to six months.
Opposition Senate leader Simon Birmingham has criticised Anthony Albanese’s office for not being ‘respectful’ by failing to answer six detailed questions about the Qatar decision which Coalition senators sent last week.
While transparency and trust were lost in the pandemic, the Qantas upgrade scandal reinforces another threat to a well-oiled democracy: deep cynicism of our decision-makers and some of our prominent companies.
Controversial claims regarding the Prime Minister’s Qantas upgrades had every news outlet frenzied last week. Not at the Guardian, however, where it barely registered.
Anthony Albanese’s top bureaucrats will be grilled in parliament over the Prime Minister’s relationship with Qantas and his involvement in blocking Qatar’s application for more flights.
We need more tradies in the construction industry and people to work in the services sector. Labor is on the wrong track thinking we should increase the proportion of the workforce with degrees.
Anthony Albanese has failed to see the damage that the idea of special flight privileges for ministers who are in a position to act in Qantas’ favour – including himself – is doing to the public perception.
There has been a “regrettable” development after a police officer was accused of murdering a Channel 10 presenter and his Qantas flight attendant boyfriend.
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A Labor minister has admitted to “picking up the phone” to request a flight upgrade from Qantas, amid ongoing furore over MPs’ travel perks.
Economist Chris Richardson says the $16bn price-tag for Anthony Albanese’s plan is ‘a reverse Robin Hood’ that transfers money from the less well off to the better off and ‘does nothing for the nation’s future’.
While handing free upgrades to politicians, Qantas is booting out executives from its Chairman’s Lounge for failing to spend more than $1m a year with the airline.
Voters are entitled to think that this is no way to run a country.
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