6 hours ago by ania1992

Today, the first of my flying friends boarded the 12.00pm Qantas aircraft from Melbourne direct to Los Angeles. A mere hour later, the rest of them boarded the 1.00pm United Airlines aircraft from Melbourne, to Sydney, to Los Angeles. It still hasn’t sunk in yet. I didn’t get to see their flights ta ...

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10 hours ago by Allen

QANTAS contracted packaging work to cheap prison labour at the expense of a company that employs disabled people. After a retendering process, Qantas contracted the work — sealing earphones in plastic bags — to the NSW Department of Corrective Services, rather than its long-time contractor, Sunnyfie ...

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11 hours ago by Allen

Qantas and Jetstar engineers who will walk off the job today say they are overworked, often getting less than four hours sleep between jobs. The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) says a small group of heavy maintenance engineers from Sydney, Brisbane a ...

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12 hours ago by Red Wolf

Qantas passengers on board a flight that turned back shortly after leaving Singapore have described seeing "tongues of fire" coming from one of the 747 jumbo jet's engines.

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1 day ago by Allen

Sunnyfield Independent employees in Chatswood will be able to keep working, after the company lost its contract to supply Qantas headsets. Workers at the company’s O’Brien St factory, which employs 111 people with intellectual disabilities, were potentially left without the work when the airliner aw ...

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1 day ago by Allen

Parliamentary Secretary for Disabilities Bill Shorten says he wants Qantas to explain why it chose cheap prison labour over a company employing people with disabilities for the re-packaging of its in flight headsets. Last month the airline decided not to renew its contract with a Sydney-based compan ...

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1 day ago by Allen

A number of Qantas and Jetstar engineers are walking off the job on Thursday over a pay and condition dispute. The Association of Professional Engineers, Scientists and Managers Australia (APESMA) said a small group of heavy maintenance engineers from Sydney, Brisbane and Avalon could strike for up ...

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1 day ago by rustybeamish

The bogan is no longer restricted to holidaying within a 5 hour Commodore journey of its nest, and it can thank a ginger Englishman for this fact. Now the whole family can whisk itself to the Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, or some other coast with a well-funded regional tourist body that pitches effect ...

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2 days ago by Allen

Hundreds of passengers booked on flights to the United Kingdom from Brisbane over Christmas may be affected by the planned British Airways strike, Qantas says. BA cabin crew, protesting company restructuring and job losses, have voted in favour of a 12 -day strike from December 22 that would threate ...

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2 days ago by Allen

THOUSANDS of travellers could be stranded over Christmas, as a QANTAS engineers strike threatens to ground planes in December and January. The nation’s carrier faces a maintenance backlog after professional engineers said they would strike for up to five days at a time over work conditions. The engi ...

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