From the SMH:
Last week Qantas hit back at the ALAEA's calls for it to ground all 737s to carry out inspections, saying it was irresponsible and misrepresented the facts.
"Qantas will never fly a plane if we do not believe it is safe to do so. Our entire reputation, our brand, is built on a safety record," Qantas domestic chief executive Andrew David said.
Out of their own mouth. All Qantas has left is its “safety record”. Not customer service, not comfortable seats, not food, not schedules. It says itself it’s defining marketing advantage is “safety” and it has been doing its level best to trash that reputation by destroying its local engineering capability. Not wanting to be proactive about an emerging structural problem in the B737 says it all. Profit is put before safety.