Adam Thorn

Last year’s Taipan crash was one of a string of accidents involving the aircraft type, which was separately grounded in 2019, 2021, and earlier in 2023.

The airline blamed “manufacturing delays” at Airbus, which means the first of its specially adapted A350-1000s will not arrive by its original delivery date of the end of next year.  

The union’s strong words come after the Flying Kangaroo lost a series of court cases that ruled the airline was wrong to remove more than 1,700 ground workers back in 2021.

The Flying Kangaroo promised the technology would be fast enough to stream movies, TV shows and live sports to users’ devices.

The funding includes support for recipients to complete additional training that focuses on the type of specialist pilot skills the aviation and tech company requires from new recruits.

The Flying Kangaroo also confirmed it would use its strong position to purchase an additional eight A321XLRs to take its future fleet of the next generation aircraft to 28.