Qantas says it has so far inspected three of its 14 strong Airbus A380 fleet for wing rib cracking, in accordance with an EASA airworthiness directive issued earlier this year. “To date Qantas has inspected three aircraft for the wing rib cracking,” the airline said in a statement issued on Friday. “In each case limited
Jetstar Japan’s first Airbus A320 has touched down at Tokyo’s Narita International Airport. The brand new 180-seat A320 departed Toulouse, France at 11:00am on April 24 and flew via Cairo in Egypt, Muscat in Oman and Hanoi in Vietnam, before landing at 19:21 at Narita on April 26. This content is available exclusively to Australian
Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has called on the federal government to move ahead with plans for a second Sydney airport despite opposition from NSW Premier Barry O’Farrell. In an opinion piece for the Daily Telegraph, Joyce said overcrowding at Sydney’s Kingsford Smith had “got to the stage now it just can’t go much longer” and
Qantas A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton touched down in Sydney on Sunday morning, completing its QF32 flight from Singapore 16 months and $139 million in repairs later after its explosive uncontained engine failure on November 4 2010. As QF32 VH-OQA touched down on Sydney’s Runway 16 Right at about 9.20am on Sunday morning, arriving on time despite
Qantas Engineering representatives ceremoniously handed over the technical log book for repaired Airbus A380 VH-OQA Nancy-Bird Walton in Singapore on Saturday morning, ahead of the aircraft’s return to Sydney overnight. VH-OQA has undergone extensive repairs in Singapore following the explosive uncontained failure of one of its Rolls-Royce Trent 900 engines when operating flight QF32 from
Qantas Airbus A380 VH-OQA is ready to return to service after an 11 month, $139 million repair program following the explosive uncontained failure of one its engines it experienced soon after taking off from Singapore in November 2010. The A380, named Nancy-Bird Walton, is due to touch down in Sydney at 9.20am on Sunday morning