Qantas and Jetstar launch flights from Sydney to PNG and Osaka

The news comes after the airline’s administrator earlier last week admitted to the federal court it was “not in a position” to prevent its leased aircraft from leaving Australia.

The TWU says the four-hour flight, which carried the Fremantle Dockers AFL team home from Launceston to Perth on Saturday, 13 July, ran out of water after around half an hour, disabling the toilets and posing a “significant health and safety risk”.