Qantas pays out bumper dividends and plans to buy 20 new aircraft after posting $2.4bn profit | Australia news

Qantas paid tampon dividends to shareholders and announced that the pre -tax profit would increase $ 300 million in June and buy 20 new planes.

Australia’s largest airline, fuel costs decreased after keeping the ticket prices constant, the profit margin expanded, the annual results showed on Thursday.

Investors offered the company’s share prices in early transactions and sent the market value to 18 billion dollars with an increase of 10% and doubled the capital letters a year ago.

The underlying earnings in the group rose from $ 200 million to $ 2.6 billion, and the budget alternative Jetstar narrows the gap between Qantas’s internal flights for the third year of Qantas.

For Qantas domestic, a profit of $ 1 billion, but increased about $ 769 million to $ 769 million, which has paid new aircraft in Jetstar and attracted an increasing number of customers in a year and paid 100 dollars or more for flights compared to the company.

The group kept the ticket prices constant at 2024-25, tickets and ticket sales both increased by about 7%and reached $ 17 billion from 56 million tickets.

Fuel prices fell for the second year in a row, so the air fees increased according to the price of jet fuel, and in the early August, the competitive guard confirmed the analysis.

According to the company report, lower costs increased the group’s operating margin from 10.4% to 10.4% throughout 10.4% throughout the year.

Qantas’s frequent brochure loyalty program earned 222 billion frequent brochure points, but after the increasing number of customers using only 185 billion customers throughout the year, it has made an increase of over 550 million dollars – an increase of 9% – underlying.

The increase in pre -tax profits of $ 2.4 billion has seen that the company has announced the company’s first dividend payment in February, the company’s first dividend payment in February.

Qantas also announced that the report will buy 20 new Airbus A321xlr aircraft to participate in the 363 powerful fleets that will increase costs next year.

Qantas also criticized the same wage laws of the Albanian government and added 65 million dollars to labor costs in 2024-25, which rose to $ 115 million for 2025-26 years.

The airline also saw that the costs of the legal presentation increased by 65 million dollars and 20 million dollars, while the airline also prepared to pay for Qantas illegally.

In 2025, the Federal Court ordered Qantas to spend a $ 120 million affected workers to compensate for the workers and then fined $ 90 million to prevent other enterprises from taking a similar transaction in August.

Qantas’s net profits, accounting for the legal presentation was $ 1.6 billion throughout the year, and was still a higher than 2023-24.