This Month
- Analysis
- Aviation
Qatar exec departure could clear the air for fresh landing rights bid
The outgoing CEO is no stranger to controversy, having built the airline into a globally significant force during his lengthy tenure.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Out with the old: who will survive the Qantas board shake-up?
As the search for a new chairman gathers speed, Vanessa Hudson will have her work cut out for her restoring the airline’s performance.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Joe Aston’s farewell column
After 12 years of writing Rear Window, my reward was the belly laughs I got to share with AFR readers as, again and again, we denuded the most fantastic pretenders in the nation.
- Joe Aston
Richard Goyder’s Qantas pantomime swansong
The Qantas chairman has elected to take an excruciating route to the inevitable.
- Joe Aston
Qantas moons the Senate
The airline considers itself an arm of government when it wants protectionist policy settings but a private company when any transparency is required of it.
- Joe Aston
Qantas gave Labor feedback on airline it said didn’t ask to expand
Catherine King said Turkish Airlines had not applied to expand, but asked Qantas for its views on the matter anyway.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser
Alan Joyce’s fan fiction fantasy
Most of Alan Joyce’s myths have been swallowed whole by the Australian media, but particularly the fairy story that under him, Qantas became extraordinarily prosperous.
- Joe Aston
September
The Qantas-Qatar showdown was years in the making
The key players in the dispute that captured the Senate’s attention this week – from Anthony Albanese to Qatar Airways boss Akbar Al Baker – have long histories.
- Ayesha de Kretser
- Updated
- Aviation
Minister King blocked talks over Qatar flights
Transport Minister Catherine King did not allow her department to open negotiations with Qatar over its request to double flights into Australia before abruptly blocking the bid.
- Ayesha de Kretser
- Opinion
- Chanticleer
Stoic Goyder and Hudson turn heat back on to Labor
Richard Goyder and Vanessa Hudson took on limited damage before a Senate committee, but deflected heat back on to the Albanese government.
- Updated
- James Thomson
After a smooth take-off, big business and Albanese have hit turbulence
Cost-of-living pressures, plus more corporate scandals, are straining relations between companies and Canberra.
- James Thomson
Qantas chairman, CEO to front inquiry, Joyce overseas
Richard Goyder and Vanessa Hudson will appear at a Senate inquiry into how Australia strikes aviation landing rights on Wednesday but former boss Alan Joyce is overseas.
- Jenny Wiggins
PM refuses to back Goyder, as Qantas plummets in poll
Half the country has an unfavourable view of Qantas and former chief executive officer Alan Joyce, a new poll has found.
- Updated
- Phillip Coorey
Richard Goyder calls off search for Qantas’ black box
Goyder retains the confidence of shareholders and the board just like every AFL coach does right before they’re sacked.
- Joe Aston
- Updated
- Aviation
Qantas to spend big to win back trust: Hudson
New CEO Vanessa Hudson says the airline will spend more than $150 million to restore trust but acknowledged the extra spending will come at a cost to the company’s profits.
- Updated
- Ayesha de Kretser
Qantas shareholders demand ‘clear accountability’ from board
One of the company’s largest investors, HESTA, says the airline must lay out a plan to restore confidence or face a backlash at its annual meeting.
- Simon Evans
$10m of Joyce’s bonus at risk in bid to appease investors
The airline’s chairman Richard Goyder says Qantas will wait until the ACCC investigation “progresses” before deciding whether to award $2.2 million in short-term bonuses.
- Ayesha de Kretser
Richard Goyder’s last supper
Six weeks before the company’s AGM, members of the Qantas board are in more shit than a sewage farm duck.
- Updated
- Joe Aston
Vanessa Hudson, queen of footnotes
The Qantas board has not disclosed any of the particulars of Vanessa Hudson’s defined benefit scheme entitlements to shareholders.
- Joe Aston
- Exclusive
- Aviation
Qantas approved Joyce share sale five weeks after ACCC notice
But the airline says the regulator had not yet “crystallised” its investigation, which came months after it requested documents and information.
- Kylar Loussikian and Ayesha de Kretser
