Qantas Shutdown

[Arthur T]

Finally glad to see Qantas flights back on running, however I am worried this will establish a very bad precedent to Australian firms.
So next time if Civil Servants in NSW are launching industrial action against the recent salary rise cap, Barry O'Farrell can shut down the Government and force them to Fair Work Australia to stop these actions for another 21 days.
The next next time if a Union is having industrial action at one of our major supermarket chains, they can shut it all down and leave us to have expensive food and short of supplies.
This is totally unacceptable and I think Julia Gillard should consider to make the company shutdown a criminal offense so that no one will shut their company down to put the whole nation into a halt.

[Daniel M]

V Australia are planning on operating a 777 MEL-SYD tomorrow

[Oliver Gigacz]

VH-OQD is being ferried from SYD to MEL as QF6017.

[Benny Zheng]

The following from Singapore systems:

Depart Singapore time

* = still yet to confirm
QF32 will depart 1215 VH-OQG. (Plane in Singapore)
QF6 will depart 1945 VH-OJE *
QF51 will depart 2105 VH-QPJ *
QF78 will depart 1945 VH-QPH * (Plane in Singapore)
QF9 will depart 2315 VH-OQD * (Plane from Melbourne)

[Rowan McKeever]

Ferrying an A380 after a 45hr shutdown??? Brilliant move...

[Grahame Hutchison]

First QF aircraft on Sydney ACARS was ...

VH-OEH QF6001 31/10/2011 13:05 Qantas B747-438(ER)

a positioning sector.

[Arthur T]

Re Daniel: The flight details has been announced on VA FB Page:

DJ 9502 SYD 1030 - 1200 MEL 2 B77W

BTW, will Singapore Airlines and Etihad still opering their birds domestically?

[Adrian B]

A pommy friend mentioned that they thought AJ in his time at Ryanair actually locked workers out for a week. Anyone confirm this?

[Nigel C]

Originally Posted by Arthur T

This is totally unacceptable and I think Julia Gillard should consider to make the company shutdown a criminal offense so that no one will shut their company down to put the whole nation into a halt.

So you're telling me that in the event of a dispute like this one, where the unions disrupted 'normal operations' by way of strike, stop-work, and dummy-strike (which all resulted in delays/cancellations), that the company should have no recourse available to it at all???

[Adrian B]

Someone please correct me if I am wrong, but I heard that the government actually instagated the FWA hearing under a certain section of the act, and that QF had that same right and ability to do so as well, but chose to go lockout.