Articles tagged “qantas”

Australia's flag carrier is telling travel agencies to either sign up, or lose out, as its breakaway distribution strategy enters a new phase.

Expect high airfares to Australia and New Zealand for the foreseeable future. Qantas and Air New Zealand, and their foreign competitors, say international schedules may not recover until mid-decade.

Qantas Airways said on Sunday it sought to make amends with its most loyal customers for months of flight disruptions that some have called "airmaggeddon."

Regulators in Australia are skeptical of the country's largest airline, Qantas, plan to buy a regional competitor. Could the U.S. be next with JetBlue and Spirit?

Airline operations are in shambles this summer. What happened?

Australia appears to be the next corner of the world to be hit with all the flying disarray gripping Europe and the U.S. Qantas Airways has warned about the months ahead, and is making plans to blunt the impact.

No one wants to miss out on a deal this summer, and that applies to mergers and acquisitions too, it seems.

Flight Centre Travel Group is a global travel agency so it should be able to handle Air New Zealand and Qantas getting around to slashing travel agent commissions two decades after Delta Air Lines kicked off the trend in the U.S. It won't be without some pain, however.

For Australia to reopen, the magic number was 80 — 80 percent of its population vaccinated. And when it crossed that threshold last month, Qantas saw bookings for long-haul international travel surge, to the point that the carrier expects to fly more than its 2019 capacity by April.

Australia is lowering the drawbridge, reopening for international travel now that vaccination rates in the country are high. And Qantas is taking full advantage, bringing back its largely idled international network weeks, and for some routes, months before it had anticipated.