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    Virgin Airlines passengers witness unexpected mid-flight emergency

    As a recently retired aircraft engineer with Qantas I can say yes all aircraft are required to have a defibrillator on board & is regularly checked.
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    Travel agent loses it after horrendous four-hour wait for Qantas: Has this happened to you too?

    TAA was privatised in 1986 and became Australian Airlines for a few years. Australian Airlines was later sold to Qantas so that they would have a domestic arm so that the government could privatise Qantas (previously fully government owned). Since then Qantas has gone downhill especially under...
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    Terrifying mid-air brawl: Window shatters during two intense fights on flight

    Just explaining the inner layer window is acoustic only (the one that broke.) The outer window is quite thick perspex,(not glass) very difficult to break, I know as I am an aircraft engineer with Qantas & have replaced lots of them.Totally agree that intoxicated people should not be allowed to...
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    Qantas, the trying kangaroo: why things won’t get better any time soon

    This is nothing new, when I worked for Qantas til 2012 ,management were always told to cut staff to reduce costs or coming up with harebrained schemes that had been tried before elsewhere but failed.
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