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Strong growth in Tiger Airways passengers

Tiger carried 437,000 passengers in February this year, up about 90 per cent from the 230,000 it carried the same month 12 months ago, the Singapore-based airline said. Load factors, which measure the number of passengers as a percentage of total seats available, rose to 85 per cent in
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Tiger reports rise in passenger numbers

AAP Tiger Airways Holdings Ltd has reported strong growth in passenger numbers and an improvement in load factors for February. Tiger carried 437,000 passengers in February this year, up about 90 per cent from the 230,000 it carried the same month 12 months ago, the Singapore-based
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Improved yields help Qantas share price

QANTAS is turning around the decline in yields - or average air fares - after they bottomed out last year, but is still experiencing weakness in earnings from its international flights. The airline's monthly traffic figures show that total domestic yields for Qantas and Jetstar for the
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Virgin Blue to fly to Uluru

Virgin Blue has announced it will start daily flights between Sydney and Uluru from August. The airline has not been operating in the region since 2005, when it withdrew its Alice Springs services. Qantas is the only commercial carrier on the Sydney- Uluru route and last
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Qantas rejects sex discrimination claims

Fourteen female cleaners were replaced in February by male workers who could also double as baggage handlers, their union says. The Transport Workers' Union today launched an application in Fair Work Australia for reinstatement saying the women had been discriminated against because
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Qantas "losing its memory"

March 3, 2010 The airline said Mr Storrie, 41, would step down from the role on Friday for ''health conditions exacerbated by his workload and related pressures on his family''. Gareth Evans, a Welshman who is CFO of the Qantas mainline business, will take on Mr Storrie's workload
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Virgin Blue appoints a chief who means business

VIRGIN BLUE will step up its attempts to eat into Qantas' share of the high-yielding corporate travel market, after it confirmed that John Borghetti would replace long-time boss Brett Godfrey in two months. Mr Borghetti (right) was characteristically tight-lipped yesterday about his
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Qantas CFO Storrie quits - Yahoo!7 Finance News

Tuesday March 2, 2010, 12:48 pm Qantas Airways Ltd says its chief financial officer is quitting to spend more time with his family for personal and health reasons . Chairman Leigh Clifford and chief executive Alan Joyce issued a statement on Tuesday saying Colin Storrie

Qantas CFO Storrie quits

AAP Qantas Airways Ltd says its chief financial officer is quitting to spend more time with his family for personal and health reasons. Chairman Leigh Clifford and chief executive Alan Joyce issued a statement on Tuesday saying Colin Storrie would step down as group CFO and resign from
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Qantas CFO quits for personal reasons

Qantas Airways’ chief financial officer is quitting to spend more time with his family for personal and health reasons. Chairman Leigh Clifford and chief executive Alan Joyce issued a statement on Tuesday saying Colin Storrie would step down as group CFO and resign from the board fr
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Virgin Blue picks Borghetti as its new CEO

Virgin Blue has announced its new chief executive will be a former senior executive of rival Qantas Airways, John Borghetti. Mr Borghetti will take over as Virgin Blue's chief executive officer and managing director from May 8, Virgin Blue said in a statement. ''With the company poised
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$2.9 million fine proposed against American Eagle

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Federal Aviation Administration proposed Wednesday that American Eagle Airlines, a division of AMR ( AMR , Fortune 500 ), be given a $2.9 million civil penalty for alleged maintenance violations. The FAA said that American Eagle found damage on four aircraft,

BA cabin crew poised to take fresh strike action

British Airways cabin crew are expected to reveal today if they will go ahead with fresh plans for strike action. Cabin crew voted overwhelmingly in favour of a controversial 12-day strike late in 2009 over their pay and working conditions but were prevented from walking off the job by
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BA cabin crew poised to take fresh strike action

British Airways cabin crew are expected to reveal today if they will go ahead with fresh plans for strike action. British Airways cabin crew are expected to reveal today if they will go ahead with fresh plans for strike action. Cabin crew voted overwhelmingly in favour of a
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BA cabin crew poised for fresh strike

British Airways cabin crew are expected to reveal on Monday if they will push ahead with fresh plans for strike action. Their union has since conducted another ballot of 12,000 cabin crew over a fresh strike plan, with the results due to be announced on Monday. Two thirds of those
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BA cabin crew poised for fresh strike

AAP British Airways cabin crew are expected to reveal on Monday if they will push ahead with fresh plans for strike action. Cabin crew voted overwhelmingly in favour of a controversial 12-day strike late in 2009 over their pay and working conditions but were prevented from walking off
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Lufthansa Preparing for Strike as Pilots Fail to Drop Demand - Bloomberg.com

Stefanie Stotz, a Frankfurt-based spokeswoman for the airline, said an offer made today by the Vereinigung Cockpit pilots’ union to postpone talks aimed at extending pay and benefits to the airline’s foreign-based crews was unacceptable. To contact the reporter on this story: Brian Pa
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Qantas investors get little joy from Joyce

February 19, 2010 But at the end of December it experienced a rapid reversal in its fortunes, and $50 million of its profit had evaporated in less than a week. Qantas did not need to tell the market of this, presumably because even after taking this into account the profit would
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Qantas flies into trouble with guidance

Be the first to comment Qantas appears to have fallen victim of its own attempts to manage the market’s expectations - having released some positive operating statistics in December along with guidance for a statutory profit before tax of between $50 million and $150 million. T
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$2.9 million fine proposed against American Eagle

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- The Federal Aviation Administration proposed Wednesday that American Eagle Airlines, a division of AMR ( AMR , Fortune 500 ), be given a $2.9 million civil penalty for alleged maintenance violations. The FAA said that American Eagle found damage on four aircraft,