Originally Posted by
CurtainTwitcher
The Qantas Safety case documents FOI are still available on the CASA website.
Qantas 2011 Safety Case Archived version.
It looks like CASA had concerns about restarting the operation (McCormick email "Safety Case Version 2" 03:38 on Monday 31 October 2011).
The question that lingers for many is precisely why a grounding with no announced job losses required a safety case, when an announcement of 5,000 job losses from safety critical areas did not?
Unions had been bracing for massive cuts at the airline for weeks, which they have been expecting to include engineers and pilots among the redundancies.Qantas has for years steered clear of making redundant its large workforce of pilots – including about 2600 who fly long-haul aircraft – preferring to allow them to take unpaid leave or seek time out to work for other airlines.
Regulatory capture?