Jetstar has continued its poor recent run of performance after being ranked the worst airline for cancellations in November. The budget airline was also the least reliable for on-time departures and second lowest ranking for on-time arrivals.
Peter Dutton said Australia's response was “panicked” and argued Labor was “making it up as they go along”, which had led to “chaos and confusion”.
It comes after it was revealed that there were 340 instances of ‘uncontrolled airspace’ since June last year in areas usually monitored by staff in towers.
Engineers replaced the faulty sensor earlier this week, and the aircraft, VH-OQH, was deemed safe to fly by the airline’s engineers and an Airbus representative.
Stephen Byron predicted prices would come down on domestic routes and argued airlines “can’t keep charging double what they used to charge”.
The A380 it dispatched to collect travellers, VH-OQD, departed Azerbaijan at 6:27 am on Christmas Day as flight QF A1D and landed in London at 8:03 am.