A Rolls Royce jet engine, which exploded on a Qantas flight soon after it departed San Francisco for Sydney on Tuesday, had not been subject to a safety inspection even though warnings were issued a fortnight ago. Rolls Royce issued safety directives to the US, Europe and Australia over the ...

A Qantas spokesman has described engine failures as extremely rare events as one of the airline’s Boeing 747-400’s is forced to make a u-turn after an engine explodes. Flight 74, en route to Sydney from San Francisco, began to experience engine trouble about 20 minutes into its journey. According to some ...

Airline regulators have told British Airways and American Airlines that, if they wish to join forces across the Atlantic, they will have to give up four take-off and landing slots at London’s Heathrow. These slots are then to be made available to rival airlines unable to find them elsewhere. US operator ...

Following Virgin Blue’s announcement last week that it has entered into a partnership with Abu Dhabi based Etihad Airways; Qantas has announced that it will be increasing capacity in the domestic market through its budget arm, Jetstar. The Australian flag carrier said it would be adding 820,000 seats to Jetstar ...

The International Air Transport Association (Iata) has announced that international travel around the world increase in July by 9.2 per cent on a year earlier. However, Giovani Bisignani, Iata’s director general, warned that growth may start to slow towards the end of the year. He added that continued improvement would ...

Shares in Virgin Blue rose recently as the airline posted an annual net profit of $21 million. It has also just announced that, as of next year, passengers will benefit from a new code share agreement it has signed with Etihad Airways. Offshoot V Australia and the Middle Eastern carrier ...

Following the recent publication of its annual financial results, Qantas has announced that it will be increasing capacity in the domestic market across both the flag carrier’s networks and on budget arm Jetstar’s routes. Qantas aims to add another 66,000 seats each week to its domestic operations by the time ...

Officials in Hong Kong have demanded a thorough investigation, as well as a full explanation, into what caused the death of eight tourists being held hostage by a former policeman in the Philippines. The tragedy unfolded in front of the world’s press after 55-year-old Rolando Mendoza boarded a bus armed ...

Last week, Virgin Blue announced that it would be pulling out of the New Zealand market, leaving Qantas, Australia’s largest airline, and Air New Zealand to dominate services across the Andaman. According to analysts at Moody’s Investment Services, this can only be good news for the airlines. As of18 October, ...

The government of Papua New Guinea is worried about the future of one of its national airlines following the opening of Cairns-Port Moresby services by Australia’s biggest carrier, Qantas Airways. Following Qantas’ decision to schedule flights on the route in July this year, Papua New Guinea’s second largest carrier, Airlines ...