The boss of Norwegian Air has cast doubt on the possibility of a Cork to New York route, saying it is currently not feasible with the aircraft at hand.

Last Friday, 870 guests piled into a Dublin hotel to celebrate the Irish aviation industry.

Holocaust survivor Tomi Reichental has been honoured for his heroism and his remarkable mission to promote reconciliation.

Qantas Airways has posted a record $2.8bn (€1.06bn) loss, reflecting a profit-draining battle with its smaller rival Virgin Australia and aircraft write-downs.

Qantas Airways says it will shed 5,000 jobs as it posted a first-half loss of AUD $235m (€153m) amid tougher competition, sending its shares down more than 7%.

Australia’s competition regulator has given Qantas Airways and Emirates final approval to form a five-year global alliance, with special conditions for flights across the Tasman Sea.

Qantas Airways reported a AUS$245m (€207m) annual loss in profits today, hurt by rising fuel prices, a series of strikes that temporarily grounded its fleet and its struggling international division.

The fact that Etihad’s energetic chief executive is showing interest in our one-time national carrier spells good news at a time when Ireland’s economy is in rebuilding mode, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Australia's Qantas airline today launched the nation's first commercial flight using a mixture of refined cooking oil.

Proposals have flooded in to the fisherman who plucked a wedding ring out of the River Lee.

Australian airline Qantas is to close some of its international routes and cut jobs after reporting an 83% drop in profits for the second half of 2011.

Qantas Airways said its flights were back on schedule today, a day after an Australian court ruling ended 48 hours of travel chaos stemming from the airline’s decision to ground its entire fleet.

QANTAS Airways planes returned to the skies yesterday after an Australian court ruled on a bitter labour dispute that had prompted the world’s 10th-largest airline to ground its entire fleet.

Australia’s air safety authority cleared Qantas Airways to resume flying today, after it grounded its entire fleet amid a bitter union dispute.

QANTAS Airways could begin returning its grounded fleet to the skies as early as today after an Australian court intervened in a bitter labour dispute by ending strikes and cancelling a staff lock-out.

An Australian court has ended the union strikes and abrupt grounding of the Qantas Airways fleet after it stranded tens of thousands of passengers.

Australia’s government ordered an emergency arbitration hearing today after Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet amid a bitter dispute with striking workers, stranding passengers around the world.

Australian national carrier Qantas Airways grounded its global fleet indefinitely today in a lockout of workers whose strikes have disrupted operations for weeks.

Australian national carrier Qantas Airways has grounded all of its planes around the world due to an industrial action by its staff.

AUSTRALIA’S Qantas Airways industrial fight with unions has turned nasty, with racist threatening letters sent to the airline’s Irish chief and other management staff, and cars and homes of Qantas staff damaged after they refused to strike.

Former US president Bill Clinton will join hundreds of influential figures from the Irish diaspora for a major economic forum in Dublin next month, it has been announced.

Qantas Airways said it more than doubled annual net profit to AUS$250m (181.56m) and warned that the general operating environment is challenging and extremely volatile.

Qantas Airways said today that it plans to cut up to 1,000 jobs as part of a major shake-up of its international business which will include the launch of a new Asia-based airline.

Qantas has launched preliminary legal action against Rolls-Royce, the manufacturer of the engine that exploded on one of its A380 superjumbos in mid-air last month.

A Qantas superjumbo has taken off from Sydney en route to London on the first passenger flight for the airline's A380s since a mid-air engine explosion earlier this month.

ROLLS-ROYCE may replace up to 40 engines on Airbus A380 superjumbos flown by three airlines, Qantas said yesterday after a mid-air explosion sparked safety fears over the world’s biggest passenger jet.

Up to half of the Rolls-Royce engines of the type which disintegrated on an Airbus superjumbo this month may need to be replaced by the three carriers in Australia, Singapore and Germany that use them, Qantas’s chief executive said today.

Europe’s air safety authority ordered airlines today to conduct more tests on the type of Rolls-Royce engine that failed in an Airbus A380.

Singapore Airlines grounded three of its A380 superjumbos today after tests uncovered problems with the planes’ Rolls-Royce engines.

Tests uncovered oil leaks in three Rolls-Royce engines on Qantas’ grounded Airbus A380s, the airline’s chief executive officer said today, as engineers tried to zero in on the cause of an engine failure on board one of the carrier’s superjumbo jets last week.

The engine failure that forced a Qantas Airbus A380 to make an emergency landing was “probably” caused by a material failure or a design fault, the Australian airline said today.

QANTAS Airways and Singapore Airlines suspended flights of Airbus A380 superjumbos yesterday after engine failure forced an emergency landing in Singapore.

Qantas chief executive officer Alan Joyce said the airline is suspending all flights of its six Airbus A380 jetliners after a mid-air engine problem on a flight from Singapore.

NEARLY 200 of the best international business brains converged on Dublin over the weekend to help inspire those charged with grasping an ailing Celtic Tiger by the scruff of the neck and forcing it back to its former winning ways.

Almost 200 influential figures from the business and cultural worlds will descend on Dublin today for a major economic forum to help pull the country out of recession.

FOREIGN Affairs Minister Micheál Martin has announced that 180 international thinkers and business experts will attend the Global Irish Economic Forum in Dublin later this month.

Details have been announced of the first ever Global Irish Economic Forum, which will be modelled on the World Economic Forum at Davos in Switzerland.

THE Taoiseach has written to some of the world’s top entrepreneurs and business leaders with Irish roots in an appeal to inject capital and initiative into the ailing economy.

The Irish-born chief executive of Qantas Airways Ltd said today the Australian flag carrier was in a strong position in merger talks with British Airways but stressed that a consolidation of the two airlines was not guaranteed.

AUSTRALIA’s state airline Qantas has appointed 42-year-old Dubliner, Alan Joyce as its chief executive.

A YOUNG man’s death after falling from a jet-ski has prompted the Marine Casualty Investigation Board to recommend that mandatory training be introduced for all people operating the machines.

THE body of a teenager was recovered yesterday following a resumed search on Lough Beltra, Co Mayo.

The body of a 19-year-old man was recovered today after vanishing when his jet ski capsized.