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Date Posted: Monday, November 29, 06:15:48am
Author: last of the option date Chicago OIC calendar went through on the 25/11/2010==US time
Subject: Qantas chief=dampened suggestions=safety

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..Qantas will maintain safety rep: Joyce

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EmailPrint.Topics:Company News & Earnings.On Sunday 28 November 2010, 16:02 EST

Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce has dampened suggestions of a safety problem at the airline, after engine trouble grounded another Qantas aircraft.

Mr Joyce also played down the sacking of a Jetstar pilot who raised concerns about cost-cutting measures at the airline, saying a major airline union is using safety as a bargaining card for industrial relations.

He said a recent series of highly publicised incidents involving Qantas aircraft have for the most part been everyday occurrences.

"The issue that started all of this was the issue on the A380, which involved a very serious failure on a Rolls-Royce engine," Mr Joyce told ABC's Inside Business program on Sunday.

"It was a new engine and it was absolutely clearly nothing to do with anything Qantas was doing.

"The other issues that have occurred happen in the aviation industry every day ... last week there were a couple of turn-backs I think that got a lot of reporting."

His comments came just half an hour after the latest Qantas plane to suffer engine trouble returned to the air at 9.30am (AEDT) on Sunday, after a "minor wiring issue" was resolved.

Passengers were pulled off the London-bound QF1 747 on Saturday night, when a loud noise emanated from the engine before take-off.

Mr Joyce said Jetstar pilot Joe Eakins, who lost his job this month, broke the airline's code of conduct and left Jetstar management with no option but to terminate his employment.

"In this case the pilot in question didn't raise safety concerns - he raised issues that are industrial relations issues related to employment in Singapore and relating to progression within the organisation," Mr Joyce said.

While employed with Jetstar, Mr Eakins wrote an opinion piece in Fairfax media raising concerns that the airline's safety culture could be "obliterated if the offshoring push continues".

Mr Joyce said pilots flying for Jetstar Asia, based in Singapore, were "paid quite well", so there was no concern that lowerwages would lead to safety problems.

Mr Joyce said the union backing Mr Eakins wanted to play "the safety card for industrial relations" purposes.

"It's purely that yet again," he said. "It is outrageous that they keep doing this."

Mr Joyce defended Qantas's reputation for safety, saying the airline's handling of the A380 crisis would prove positive in the long run.

"The compliments that we're getting on how Qantas handled it, how our pilots handled it, our cabin crew handled it, how the organisation handled it, I think will actually do our brand really good in the medium to long term."

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