Dan Webb encroaches into the Australia Desk despite the boys’ best efforts but they manage to recover and continue on with this week’s stories:

• Qantas take delivery of their fourth A380 with their fifth & sixth will be added later this year.
• Qantas are not happy about the delays in the 787 Dreamliner project as they are having to run older aircraft for longer than they wanted.
• Qantas maintenance engineer faked his history to get a job then faked his references at court.
• Virgin Blue expects to break even this financial year.