Chris Zappone

It has been more than five years since Qantas announced the redundancies of 1820 people in a move the courts ruled unlawful. Most still haven’t been compensated.

The airline said 12 per cent of scheduled services – including Auckland-Sydney and Auckland-Brisbane flights – have been cut, a move described as “temporary”.

While the change that the British government is imposing affects 85 countries, it may have a particular impact on a nation with more than a million UK-born residents.

A rash of flight cancellations that affected 200,000 passengers in Sydney last month is prompting calls for urgent changes.

A US investment bank is already eyeing the fuel-cost benefits for airlines of lighter passengers.

The incident, investigated by the Australian Transport Safety Bureau, not only imperilled the skydiver, but the plane, too.

Removal of 6000 A320s from global fleets, even for a single day, will upset the tightly choreographed schedules that airlines around the world depend on.

Queues are mounting at Australian airports after half of the world’s A320 fleet was struck by a software outage, triggering a global emergency alert for some Airbus aircraft.

Qantas flight crew alerted the captain and spoke to the man, who said he was taking photos of a youth because he “looked like his grandson”.

A Malaysia Airlines A330, with 247 people on board, and a Bamboo Airways 787, with 212 people on board, both overran a shortened runway during take-off, lifting off only metres above an active worksite.