Category: Qantas

The union representing Qantas maintenance engineers, the ALAEA, has today called a three week halt to its campaign of protected industrial action against the airline. “With immediate effect all industrial action is called off for three weeks,” a statement on the ALAEA’s website published Thursday afternoon reads. “Members are requested to accept all overtime offered.

Qantas says it is being forced to park a further two Boeing 767-300s from next Monday due to the backlog of maintenance work caused by industrial action by its maintenance engineers, and has warned more aircraft groundings may be necessary. The airline says removing the two 767s from its fleet will mean a further 80

Qantas has detailed plans to operate almost 400 fewer domestic flights – capacity equivalent to around 60,000 seats – over the next month as industrial action by its engineers takes effect on its backlog of maintenance work. Qantas says that the cumulative effect of industrial action by ALAEA members, including work stoppages, a ban on

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has announced that go slow action and overtime bans by the company’s Australian Licenced Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (ALAEA) members has caused it to ground five domestic aircraft for one month from October 17. Joyce said the grounding is necessary because insufficient maintenance is being worked on the airline’s fleet, meaning flights