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Owen Zupp is an accomplished journalist and author that has written for some of the worlds leading aviation publications. He maintains an active interest in General Aviation when he’s not commanding a Qantas 737. Owen recently posted a message to family and friends on his personal Facebook page addressing their concerns for him during Qantas [...]
The following audio was recorded this morning at Sydney’s Qantas Press Conference. Alan Joyce responds to the Fair Work Australia ruling that terminated all Qantas protected industrial action. The decision was made under section 424 of the Fair Work Act which states, in part, that “… FWA must suspend or terminate protected industrial action if [...]
Qantas are set to resume services as early as this afternoon after Fair Work Australia ruled to stop both sides from engaging in industrial disputes. The decision, announced at 2am, requires that both Qantas and the unions resolve their differences in the next 21 days. Failing successful resolution, a further 21 days can be applied [...]
Following is the audio from yesterday’s Qantas press conference in Sydney. It supplements the transcript we provided yesterday. Introduction At 5pm AEST on the 29th October 2011, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce held a press conference in Sydney where he announced the immediate grounding of all airline operations – both international and domestic – in response [...]
In an unexpected and completely unprecedented move, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce has shut down all of Qantas’ airline operations until ongoing industrial disputes with its staff are resolved. As of 8pm on Monday night, the airline will “lock out” all staff involved in its industrial dispute (those that are managed by contracts ruled by the [...]
The industrial unrest within the Qantas group is no secret. The long-haul pilot body, engineers, refuellers and baggage handlers are all looking at their own independent and simultaneous protected industrial action as what can only be considered to be a serious indictment on the current company CEO. While this suggests inevitable grief for the travelling [...]
Attached are two documents that seemingly appear to be genuine Airbus documentation detailing damage done to QF32 as a result of the uncontained failure on the Airbus A380 earlier this month. The first document, QF32-A380-Damage-Overview.pdf, appears to be a PowerPoint slide presented by Thomas Montagne, Airbus’ Technical Services Manager. It presents an overview of major [...]
Qantas have produced a number of excellent podcasts. The first series, Plane Speak, is presented by Captain Dale Newman, and he answers some of the common questions that are asked by passengers. The second series is released as part of Qantas’ 90th Anniversary birthday and cover the history of the organisation dating back to the [...]
We considered devoting a segment on the uncontained engine failure of Qantas Flight 32 (VH-OQA, an Airbus A380) in the latest episode of Flight Podcast, but decided it was inappropriate to address the issues in any detail in the early stages void of any real or formal investigation. We have a panel of experts that [...]
I received a disturbing phone call from a friend only a few hours ago who had caught the tail end of a news bulletin suggesting that Qantas debris had washed up onto a Beach in Batam. Traditional news services failed me, so I turned to the one place that offers immediate information – Twitter. As [...]
A Qantas Boeing 747-400, registration VH-OJP performing flight QF-74 (departing Aug 30th) from San Francisco to Sydney with 212 passengers and 19 crew, was climbing through FL250 about 20 minutes into their flight when the number 4 engine (an RB211) suffered an uncontained failure. It caused a large hole into the outer engine cowling near [...]
While most grown-ups lock themselves away in garages to tinker away with motorcycles or watch porn, a father of two from Melbourne’s northern suburbs, Ryan McNaught, has spent the better part of 8 months assembling a 2.2-metre long, 1.8-metre wide replica of a Qantas Airbus A380 built from over 35,000 individual Lego bricks at a [...]
The Australian has reported that the Dreamliner may come to Australia as part of it’s flight testing program. Alice Springs has been mooted as a possible destination, although some PR flights throughout the Eastern states are likely. Boeing VP Dennis O’Donoghue stated that decisions regarding locations for flight testing are often made very late in [...]
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