Qantas half years results are in, and the outcome is again ugly. Qantas posted a $1.28 billion loss for the first 6 months of the 2022 financial year which is worse than the $1bn loss posted in the previous corresponding period. It is Qantas’ fourth consecutive half-year loss because of the Delta and Omicron Covid-19…
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There has been no summer break for Qantas. In fact, quite the opposite with lots of developments since school broke up. On the plus side there has been plenty of Christmas cheer for Qantas. There is much pent-up demand for travel, especially from people wanting to see family and friends and except for WA the…
Qantas has flagged that it now expects a $2 billion loss for FY 2021. Not surprising as the airline had been hit harder than any other Australian company by COVID-19. Qantas estimates since the start of the pandemic it has lost more than $16bn in revenue, with losses from the previous and the current financial…
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There has not been much good news for Qantas of late culminating in their announced loss of $1 billion for the first 6 months of the financial year announced last month. However, these past few weeks there has been some blue sky for Qantas. First was the Federal Governments post-JobKeeper $1.2 billion aviation and tourism…
Qantas half yearly results are in and the outcome from the COVID-19 pandemic and border closures is ugly. Qantas posted an Underlying net loss of $1.03 billion for the first six months of financial year 2021. To put this in perspective Qantas posted a $771 million profit for the corresponding period in 2020. Qantas’ revenue…
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Alan Joyce has used the airline’s AGM to put unions on notice that he expects employees to be flexible on new work agreements. The Qantas CEO wants cheaper labour to compete with a post-administration Virgin Australia and help offset the severe financial challenges facing the airline. Unions reacted angrily to the demand saying that Qantas…