Qatar announced last year it would purchase a stake in the Australian airline and, as part of the agreement, would ‘wet lease’ aircraft and crew to Virgin so it could fly 28 services a week to the Middle Eastern country’s capital.
A 45-year-old Jordanian man, Shadi Taiseer Alsaaydeh, has been charged with two counts of endangering the safety of an aircraft and one count of assaulting cabin crew, and is set to appear before Downing Centre Local Court on Wednesday.