Category: Qantas

Qantas’s fleet of Airbus A380s remain grounded after last week’s QF32 uncontained engine failure, with the airline confirming that “anomalies” have been found on three engines on two A380s after inspections. This content is available exclusively to Australian Aviation members. Login Become a Member To continue reading the rest of this article, please login. Username

News of two further inflight incidents overshadowed Qantas’s 90th anniversary celebrations for staff at its Sydney Jet Base on Saturday. Six minutes after takeoff from Singapore on Friday evening passengers and crew on 747-400 VH-OJD operating QF6 bound for Sydney heard a bang and saw sparks emit from the aircraft’s number 1 RB211 engine. The

Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has said at a media conference that the airline’s fleet of Airbus A380s could be back flying within a few days, while passengers on the ill-fated QF32 service have now departed Singapore. Joyce told reporters that it had agreed with Rolls-Royce and Airbus on a series of checks on the Trent

Qantas management and the union which represents its maintenance engineers, the Australian Licensed Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) have become involved in a very acrimonious public debate over outsourcing maintenance in the wake of the QF32 engine failure incident yesterday. In a statement released yesterday evening, ALAEA federal secretary Steve Purvinas alledged safety was a growing