Qantas

[wilk1149]

Soon to become the dodgiest airline in the world

[wilk1149]

You obviously know less than you think of how aircraft operate. You probably even call them planes.

[aps1080]

No, I used to call them 20,000 rivets all flying in unison !!! LOL

Which is what they are.

Being in a pressurised but unheated aircraft at height is bloody cold.

I froze my balls off once, so cold that when we came into land and was told to move I couldn't

[kopenhagen5]

Lets not forget most incidences are more to do with the aircraft than the airline.

There will always be unforeseen circumstances no matter how diligent maintenance is due to aircraft design or manufacture.

The A380's are still very new.

[aps1080]

Wilk

That's why they have Pilots, Co pilots, engineers and Loadies.

If I wanted to know about aircraft, I'd have become one of them.

[kopenhagen5]

As Alan Joyce has just mentioned - 

The turn around rate for world airlines is approx 1 in 9000 

The turn around rate for Qantas is approx 1 in 18,000

[debra9275]

Alan Joyce may be yet another "hatchet" man like Sol was.  destroying the company so it can be sold off to overseas investors. I wouldn't be surprised if that's what's really going on there

[wilk1149]

Qantas may have had a rate of 1 in 18000. I'm guessing that unless they had 52000 flights yesterday the rate has just gone out the window