Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation is working through contingency plans, after the Australian Federation of Air Pilots opted to extend ongoing strike action at the airline by a further four days.
Union-affiliated Network Aviation pilots will double their strike action from three days to six, as their dispute with parent company Qantas over an enterprise agreement escalates.
Premier Roger Cook has urged Qantas and the union representing pilots at its WA subsidiary, Network Aviation, to resolve their differences ahead of planned strike action later this week.
Further disruption could hit air routes servicing the state's mining and resources sectors this week, as an industrial dispute between unions and a Qantas subsidiary escalates.
Flights on Western Australian Qantas subsidiary airline Network Aviation are disrupted today as strike action organised by the Australian Federation of Air Pilots goes ahead.
Pilots working for Western Australia-based Qantas subsidiary Network Aviation could walk off the job later this week as part of an ongoing enterprise agreement dispute.
Qantas has quietly grounded bi-weekly flights between Melbourne and Exmouth on the same day it launched another direct interstate flight between northern WA and the east coast.
Unions and major companies are going head to head over proposed labour hire laws, with the latter arguing higher pay rates will threaten business viability.
As first flagged by Business News in February, Qantas has finally announced its nonstop Perth to Paris flights in time for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games and European summer.
Perth Airport and Qantas have denied that a deal has been done in their long-running and complex dispute surrounding the airline's move to the eastern side of the airport.
Our weekly appointments wrap includes Michael Holmes, Stuart Gula, Tress Walmsley, Lyndon Mickel, Paula Wilkinson, Mark McGowan, Peta Slocombe, Kaylene Gulich, Kathleen Conlon, John Humphrey and Richard Goyder.
Qantas chairman Richard Goyder will leave the national carrier before the end of 2024 following intense public scrutiny and as part of a broader board revamp to address reputational issues.
Thousands of FIFO workers are expected to be affected when pilots from the Qantas-owned Network Aviation walk off the job as a wages dispute intensifies.
In this podcast, Simone Grogan and Jack McGinn discuss Woodside's big week; Qantas hearing; Mineral Resources; De Grey; South Perth's timber tower; and plans for an ex-premier's house.
A parliamentary committee examining the Albanese government's blocking of additional Qatar Airways flights will grill senior bureaucrats about what they knew.
Qantas chairman Richard Goyder has told a senate committee that major shareholders want him to stay on as chairman of the national carrier in the face of conflicting calls for his resignation.
Qantas will invest a further $80 million in customer improvements across financial year 2024 in addition to the $150 million previously budgeted, which will be funded from profits.
Qantas chairman Richard Goyder says customers have lost trust in the airline and flagged action on executive salaries, which could cost Alan Joyce millions.
Qantas is an "exceptionally aggressive competitor", a parliamentary hearing into Qatar Airways' failed bid for extra flights into Australia has been told.
Nationals Leader David Littleproud says there are serious cultural deficiencies at Qantas, which lost a court appeal over the sacking of thousands of workers.
Transport Workers Union national secretary Michael Kaine has called for prominent company director Richard Goyder to resign from the Qantas board after the airline's appeal to the High Court was tossed.
Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce will leave his job immediately - two months earlier than expected - to allow the airline to "accelerate its renewal".
In this podcast Mark Beyer and Mark Pownall discuss Fortescue's revolving door, Qantas, Perth house prices, renewable deal, Frank Wilson, Federal IR changes and the Dowerin Field Days.
Vanessa Hudson has the right stuff in spades to captain Qantas through the next phase of its extraordinary flight path that has already spanned 103 years.
