Bloomberg Qantas Airways Ltd needs executives from head office to leave their jobs for three months and haul luggage full-time to address a stubborn labour shortage that’s disrupting flights. The airline is looking for at least 100 volunteers to carry out shift work at Sydney and Melbourne airports, Chief Operating Officer Colin Hughes wrote in a note to managers ...

  Bloomberg Air New Zealand carried 10% fewer passengers in the last financial year, while volumes remain less than half pre-Covid levels. Passengers carried fell to 7.7 million in the year ended in June 30 from 8.6 million a year earlier, the carrier said in Wellington. The total slumped from 17.7 million in the year through June 2019. New Zealand ...

  Bloomberg British clothing and housewares chain Next Plc is in talks to acquire a minority stake in troubled retailer Joules Group Plc for about £15 million ($18.1 million). The potential investment will be made “at no less than” its current market price, Joules said in a statement responding to a report it was looking to sell a roughly 25% ...