Chief executive Alan Joyce said that the delay was due to prioritising voluntary redundancies over compulsory ones.
The TWU's National Secretary said, “The Qantas CEO is good at walking the halls of Canberra when it suits his agenda yet quick to hang workers out to dry.”
The Qantas Group has announced it will cut 6,000 jobs altogether and continue stand-downs for 15,000 employees.
The decision is a result of bickering between political parties in New Zealand, with only the Greens and Labour supporting the project.
Axiom Precision Manufacturing currently supports BAE Systems with component machining for the Joint Strike Fighter
The ‘Luminescent Longreach’ display will involve projecting a 3D animation across 635 square metres of a Boeing 747, designed after a 11,000 hour creative process.