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Australia s Qantas pushes back int l travel target as H1 revenue falls 75% Reuters 24/02/2021 By Jamie Freed
By Jamie Freed
SYDNEY (Reuters) - Qantas Airways Ltd said it had pushed back its target for a widespread resumption of international travel from Australia by four months until the end of October, when the country s vaccination programme is expected to conclude.
The airline grounded its international fleet last March and a domestic recovery has been hampered by state border closures, leading to a 75% fall in revenue to A$2.33 billion ($1.9 billion) in the six months to Dec. 31.
Qantas on Thursday said it swung to a A$1.03 billion first-half underlying loss before tax, its most closely watched financial measure, compared with a A$771 million profit a year earlier.
United Airlines' Denver-Hawaii flight, powered by Pratt & Whitney engines, had suffered a mid-air engine failure, resulting in 5 airlines around the world grounding Boeing 777 fleet.
Jet Engine Explosion Over Denver Rings Alarms on Shielding Bloomberg 2/22/2021 Alan Levin
(Bloomberg) The mid-air disintegration of a jet engine over suburban Denver Saturday is the latest in a string of failures that has raised alarm among regulators about debris evading shielding that’s supposed to keep broken parts from hitting aircraft.
The incident aboard the United Airlines flight 328, which showered neighborhoods with metal debris, appears to have been the fifth in five years in which a fan blade broke and destroyed the front section of the engine, according to accident reports and safety experts. That portion of the engine isn’t as protected as the core areas around the jet turbines that are built to contain material in a failure.
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Date lodged: 31 July 2020Status: CompletedOutcome: Granted with conditions on 29 January 2021SummaryOn 31 July 2020 Qantas Airways Limited (Qantas) & China Eastern Airlines Corporation Limited (China Eastern Airlines) and their related bodies corporate applied for revocation of conditional authorisations A91470 and A91474 and substitution for a new authorisation for similar conduct, administered through an Extended Joint Coordination Agreement until March 2022.
The Extended Joint Coordination Agreement would permit Qantas and China Eastern Airlines to continue their alliance and coordinate on operations between Australia and mainland China beyond 31 October 2020, when authorisations A91470 and A91474 are due to expire.
The applicants have requested that the new authorisation issue without conditions requiring the maintenance or growth of flight capacity during the authorisation period (which was a condition imposed by the ACCC in authorisations A91470 and A91