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Painted in the airline’s updated orange-tail livery, as seen on its A321neo LR fleet, the 188-seat VH-A5A is the first of five A320neos slated to arrive by the end of the 2025 financial year and will be based in Melbourne.

VH-X4F, which touched down in Canberra on 3 April, is the sixth A220 in the Qantas fleet, and flew passengers for the first time as QF1271 from Canberra to Melbourne on Monday.

The five Australian women were left traumatised after strip-searches and physically invasive examinations were performed on them following the discovery of a baby abandoned in an airport bin, with their lawyers having argued earlier this year that they…