Australia's flagship carrier Qantas has reached a 95 million Australian dollar ($100 million) settlement with engine maker Rolls-Royce over last year's mid-air disintegration of a superjumbo engine... more
Rolls-Royce's results comfortably beat City forecasts and helping offset some of the damage done to the company's reputation from last year's Qantas A380 engine failure... more
Qantas Airways hopes to resume its normal Airbus A380 flights within the next two weeks as Rolls-Royce ends its investigation into a mid-flight engine explosion on one of the planes... more
Analysis: Long and complex commercial relationship between the airline and engine-maker means neither will want to face a noisy bust-up in court under the glare of the world’s media... more
Qantas faces a squeeze in flights over Christmas, with a source saying it will be weeks before its fleet of six Airbus A380s can return to service... more
466 passengers on the Qantas Airbus A380 forced to make an emergency landing in Singapore this month were 'very lucky' it did not explode in mid-air, killing everyone on board, aerospace experts said... more
Strife at Rolls-Royce shows little sign of easing after Qantas says it has found oil leaks in engines made by the British company for its Airbus A380 superjumbos... more
Tests uncover oil leaks in three Rolls-Royce engines on Qantas’s grounded Airbus A380s, as engineers try to find the cause of an engine failure on board one of the carrier’s jets... more
Market Round-up: BHP Billiton’s appetite for acquisition is knocked off course as Canada unexpectedly blocks its $39 billion bid for Potash Corpo — but its shares go sprinting upwards... more
British Airways would be interested in discussing a merger with Qantas if Australia's top airline was a willing party, BA Chief Executive Willie Walsh said... more
Australian flag carrier Qantas lost A$107 million in the second half of its financial year to June and scrapped its dividend as passenger numbers tumbled
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Shares in Qantas, the biggest Australian airline, slumped as much as 11% as it slashed its profit forecast by more than half and said it would axe capacity and jobs... more
Aviation: British Airways' dreams of a three-way merger with Australian airline Qantas and Spanish carrier Iberia were in tatters after talks with the Aussies collapsed... more
Aviation: Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce warned that the Australian airline's planned £3.8 billion merger with British Airways faces major obstacles and could well not go ahead... more
Australian Transport Minister Anthony Albanese dampened speculation of an imminent merger between British Airways and Qantas, saying talks are "far from conclusion"... more
Passengers on a packed jumbo jet flight from London described their terror after a gaping hole was punched in the plane as it headed for Australia... more
Exclusive: After high-profile allegations this season, Charlton's manager is pleased the issue is now being addressed but says the authorities still have plenty of work to do
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