Qantas optimistic with A380

Australia's Qantas Airways hopes to have its fleet of six Airbus A380s flying again "within days" following urgent checks after an engine failure, Chief Executive Alan Joyce said over the weekend.  He was optimistic that the aircraft would quickly return to service as two safety incidents on consecutive days overshadowed lavish celebrations to mark the airline's 90th anniversary this month.

In a second incident on Friday, a Boeing 747 en route to Australia was also forced to turn back to Singapore.  The two occurrences were not connected, each on a different type of Rolls-Royce engine.

Qantas was founded in 1920 as the Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial  Services.  It is the world’s second oldest continuously operation airline under its own name (after KLM). www.qantas.com

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