Me either, but I have heard of more 'company minded' crew subtly suggesting to other crew that we should "take min op fuel to save the company" or extend our tour of duty despite already feeling fatigued and other cost saving initiatives that impact on (if nothing else) the workload of the crew.

Most crew that you would want to fly/work with wont even consider it. Unfortunately some will.

Most crew in Australia theses days take extra fuel or don't extend duty simply to spite the company. :E I can't imagine the problem of trying to help the company reduce pax compensation is going to be a wide spread issue.

That other site would be grossly misinformed. The aircraft has had repairs completed by Boeing in the last month. The aircraft was ferried to Sydney with the work completed in a Qantas hangar. It should return to service in the near future. According to the Boeing repair team, this is not the worst damage they have repaired on a 787.

Jetstar did mention to the press that they would be back to full fleet by end of the week, take that with a grain of salt...

Back in ops https://flightaware.com/live/flight/VHVKL

It was brought up by one of our managers when I was at Big Airways some years ago. Emphasis was on recording of times and data to ensure 'blame' was allocated correctly. Make of that what you will.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2022-09-...bunk/101485342

With remarkable timing the repaired VKL and also VKB have gone tech with JQ57 as well as JQ43 and their return flights cancelled today. Welcome to school holidays.

Just curious where the responsibility starts with pax who are always and always have been urged to get travel insurance??

It's been said that it's a 'me me' world these days but we seem to have a situation now where no one bothers with travel insurance, so when something goes wrong that is unforeseeable (such as lightening strikes), pax send a tweet or a instagram post and all of a sudden things that used to rely on the pax taking responsibility for certain things are now bottled down to "I didn't bother with insurance so now it's all your fault and you have to do everything for me and wipe my bum as well."

Whatever happened to that old saying "A total lack of planning on your part does not constitute an emergency on mine".

I am excluding of course, situations of the airline's own making that cause substantial disruption, that would be a case for compensation.

Travel insurance generally does not cover delays, those that do have limits in place, ie 6 hours plus before you get anything. The fine print across policies is generally heavier vs the airlines conditions of carriage.

I remember Tiger in its first few months when it started, tried that. Dumped all passengers on the Gold Coast, told them refunds will arrive in a few months and the Managing Director told the media ‘they should have purchased travel insurance’. It was all downhill after that.