Jetstar’s worldwide operations are in disaster, with 1000’s of shoppers languishing in Bali, Thailand, Singapore and Japan as dozens of flights have been cancelled.

The principle airline and regional subsidiary Qantas Hyperlink are additionally beset with plane and upkeep issues, with 31 flights cancelled throughout the group in a single day — only one fewer than all of the airways within the US — because of a mix of unhealthy luck and administration miscalculations which have left the corporate dramatically wanting plane and engineers.

Whereas some Jetstar plane have suffered freak accidents, together with lightning strikes, the underlying downside is that Qantas and Jetstar engineering divisions are undermanned and struggling to maintain up. This is because of scores of redundancies compelled on staff in the course of the COVID pandemic, regardless of the airline receiving greater than $2 billion in JobKeeper funding from Australian taxpayers.