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Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has urged both the company and labor unions to settle the dispute immediately.

Australia's Qantas Airways grounded its entire fleet on Saturday over a bitter labor dispute in an unprecedented move, with the government asking a tribunal to stop the conflict which it worries is putting both the airline and the economy at risk.

Australia's Qantas Airways Ltd. grounded its entire fleet Saturday over a bitter labor dispute in an unprecedented move that the government said it would ask a labor tribunal to stop.

Workers have been striking against Qantas' plans to restructure the airline, a move that is expected to result in almost 1,000 job cuts.

Whitney Hudson was almost kicked off a Delta Airlines flight, when the singer refused to fasten her seatbelt. Well certainly does not sound like the behavior of an adult in her senses, but she was under the influence of no drugs! TMZ quoted multiple resources as saying that Whitney boarded a flight in Atlanta on Wednesday afternoon ... and when she settled into her seat, a stewardess kindly asked her to buckle up her seat belt.

Australia's competition regulator has given final approval for a transpacific alliance between Qantas Airways and AMR Corp's American Airlines, it said on Thursday.

Australia's Qantas Airways canceled or delayed more than 50 flights on Tuesday after around 4,000 ground staff walked off the job as an industrial dispute over pay and the airline's plans to expand in Asia escalated.

He was pronounced dead by an onboard physician 90 minutes after departure.

Through three of the passengers were medical professionals, they could not save Robert Rippingdale

The planned layoffs would reportedly include management, pilots, cabin crew and engineers. The company has a total of 35,000 employees.

Is a film called "The Female Orgasm Explained" appropriate for a settle as public as an airplane?

Australia's Qantas Airways is setting up two new airlines in Asia and ordering $9 billion of new Airbus aircraft as part of a do-or-die makeover to salvage its loss-making international business.

Australia's Qantas Airways is setting up two new airlines in Asia and ordering $9 billion of new Airbus aircraft as part of a do-or-die makeover to salvage its loss-making international business.

The in-flight entertainment on some planes run by Australian airline Qantas currently contains a somewhat unusual offering -- a movie that purports to elucidate the mysteries of female sexual pleasure.

Australia's Qantas Airways unveiled plans on Tuesday to set up two new Asia-focused airlines and launch a $9 billion-plus fleet upgrade, part of a do-or-die makeover that also gives a major boost to plane maker Airbus .

Rolls-Royce and Qantas have reached a settlement over an Airbus A380 engine explosion last year that forced a jet with 469 people on board to make an emergency landing and grounded much of the airline's fleet.

Qantas Airways expects its full-year earnings to come in close to market expectations but faces heavy losses on international routes and continues to grapple with rising fuel prices and flight disruptions, it said on Wednesday.

Qantas Airways put its shares on a trading halt on Wednesday ahead of an update on its financial outlook, which sparked worries it was going to unload a profit warning that could knock its shares below two-year lows.

The volcanic ash cloud over the eastern part of Australia is costing the tourism sector more than $10 million a day, an industry group says.

Australia is in for round 2 of the menacing Chilean ash cloud. Thousands of air passengers will be left stranded as flights to and from South Australia are cancelled due to volcanic ash from Chile’s Puyehue volcano again this week.

Chile's volcanic ash cloud has lapped the world and is expected to affect Australian flights starting Tuesday in Adelaide.