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Profit result down 13% from last year’s record but airline remains flush with cash as Jetstar’s Australian earnings rise by 35%

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Chair Richard Goyder and CEO Vanessa Hudson face a grilling from irate Qantas shareholders at a tense annual general meeting

Fielding tough questions from a furious audience is no one’s idea of fun. But as Richard Goyder and Vanessa Hudson – Qantas chairman and chief executive, respectively – dealt with angry question after angry question at the airline’s annual general meeting today, the pair knew their main audience was not…

Shouts of ‘shame on you’ after shareholder Chris Maxworthy’s microphone cut off

Qantas loyalty chief executive Olivia Wirth has announced she will leave the airline for other roles after spending 14 years at the company.

Under-fire Qantas chairman Richard Goyder will retire from the airline's board in about 12 months but a fierce critic wants him to leave the company now.

All the day’s news as it unfolded

As Qantas faces up to tough questioning from a Senate committee and a claim from the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) for as much as A$600 million for allegedly selling tickets on more than 8,000 “ghost flights” it had already cancelled, its customers might be thinking things are about…