Plummeting profits and declining freight and passenger traffic will see Qantas Airways slash as many as 1750 jobs, sell aircraft and defer its order for four Airbus A380 superjumbos. Qantas announced plans earlier this week to cut about 500 management positions and confirmed it was considering a further 1,250 redundancies out of a company-wide total of more than 34,000. Last year the carrier already cut 1,500 jobs. Qantas employees will also be asked to take long service leave, work part time … [Read more...] about Qantas makes deep cuts and defers A380s