Qantas to send its Avalon heavy-maintenance work overseas
QANTAS will send heavy maintenance on its remaining Boeing 747 jets offshore after its operation at Victoria's Avalon Airport shuts in March.
The move means heavy maintenance on both of the airline's biggest planes, the 747 and the Airbus A380, will now be done overseas and comes after discussions with unions known as "an outsourcing protocol".
Two 747s scheduled for maintenance checks in May will be sent to Hong Kong-based maintenance organisation HAECO, while an international tender process will be launched for subsequent work.
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