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City Spy: Quarto favourite is to kindle romance

17.08.11
Lawrence Orbach, the chairman and chief executive of publisher Quarto, is pretty convinced that the "book is not dead"... more

Rolls-Royce agrees Qantas engine blow-out payment

22.06.11
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 beats forecasts as Rose prepares for departure

10.02.11
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 gets back to normal on Airbus A380 routes

05.01.11
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

Qantas readies Airbus A380s for return to air

22.12.10
Qantas Airways says it will have five Airbus A380 aircraft in service by the end of the week... more

Qantas claims multi-million damages from Rolls-Royce

03.12.10
Qantas Airways could claim up to A$60 million from Rolls-Royce over faulty Airbus A380 engines and loss of business... more

Clever Qantas won’t have its day in court

02.12.10
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

Grounded A380s leave Qantas with Christmas headache

19.11.10
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

Blast jet's 466 passengers 'so lucky not to die'

18.11.10
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

Rolls-Royce stacks up A380 engines for faulty planes

16.11.10
Rolls-Royce asks Airbus to return some A380 jet engines from production lines so it can use them to replace faulty ones in aeroplanes... more

Rolls-Royce shares nosedive after new engine alert

10.11.10
Shares in Rolls-Royce fall another 5p to 601½p after Singapore Airlines takes three of its Airbus A380 superjumbos out of service... more

Rolls-Royce shares still diving after leaks found in air-scare Airbus A380 engines

08.11.10
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

Oil leaks found in engines of grounded Airbus A380s

08.11.10
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

Second Qantas jet forced to land after engine trouble

05.11.10
Second Qantas jet reports engine problems after taking off from Singapore... more

Rolls-Royce shares crash as jet engine fails in flight

04.11.10
Rolls-Royce shares tumble after one of its engines failed on a Qantas Airbus A380... more

Passengers' terror as superjumbo's engine explodes mid-air with 459 on board

04.11.10
Superjumbo jet was forced to make a terrifying emergency landing on a flight from London to Sydney after an engine exploded in mid-air... more

Canada denies BHP Billiton on Potash but buyback hopes send price soaring

04.11.10
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

Qantas slaps down merger talk with BA

22.09.10
British Airways chief executive Willie Walsh might still be keen to join with Australian carrier Qantas, but his proposal is met with scorn... more

British Airways 'interested in future Qantas merger'

07.09.10
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

Qantas beats rivals to report £91m profits

19.08.09
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 ... more

Blow to Boeing from Qantas cancellation

26.06.09
Boeing's new Dreamliner aeroplane project suffered another massive blow as Qantas cancelled and deferred orders for 30 new planes... more

Malaysia Airlines scrap Qantas repair venture

15.04.09
Malaysia Airlines said it has dropped a proposed joint venture with Australia's Qantas Airways for aircraft maintenance and repair... more

Qantas profits slide as customers vanish

14.04.09
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

Pressure grows on BA as tie-up talks with Qantas ditched

18.12.08
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

Qantas boss warns BA merger may not take off

08.12.08
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

Australia says BA-Qantas merger faces a long haul

03.12.08
Australian Transport Minister Anthony Albanese dampened speculation of an imminent merger between British Airways and Qantas, saying talks are "far from conclusion"... more

Now British Airways is in merger talks with Qantas

02.12.08
British Airways today announced audacious plans to merge with Qantas, the Australian airline.... more

BA in a bid to merge with Qantas as air crisis grows

02.12.08
Aviation: British Airways reveals audacious plans for a merger with the Australian airline Qantas... more

London jumbo plunges 20,000 feet after hole is ripped in its fuselage

25.07.08
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

Routes cut by Qantas as fuel costs bite

28.05.08
Qantas becomes the latest airline to announce cuts in passenger capacity in response to the rising price of oil... more


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