The average fleet age is 15 years old, yet even the newer aircraft (787s and refurbed A380s) are buckets of sh!t. Qantas engineering sacked so many engineers and shut down so many departments during COVID that they no longer have a dedicated department to maintain their aircraft cabins. Business seat locked out? Standard these days. Toilet seats cracked? Yep no spares. Cabin just looking shabby? Thanks Alan.
They did try using the LAX maintenance base to fill the shortfall of engineers in Australia but LAX is a bigger failure than planned.
But Kylie sang and they have a rainbow liveried A330 so Alan is happy.