Qantas Aiways’ maintenance engineers have decided to postpone all industrial action over their claims for job security.

Stop-work meetings planned this morning, which was due to affect 2,500 passengers, as well industrial action for Monday were now both cancelled.

Action will be put back for at least four weeks according to the secretary of the Licensed Aircraft Maintenance Engineers (LAME) union Steve Purvinas.

"I dare say they wouldn't be ready to take action for about a month but if it happens to coincide with anything that we do, that would of course be a concern for the Qantas management team," Mr Purvinas said.

Qantas has welcomed the announcement the the Australian Licenced Aircraft Engineers Association (ALAEA) have called off planned industrial action next week.

Qantas Group Executive Government and Corporate Affairs, Olivia Wirth, said this would ensure that Qantas passengers are not disrupted.

"We are pleased that Qantas customers can now travel with confidence," she said.

Ms Wirth, however, emphasised the cancelling of the strike had nothing to do with aircraft maintenance issues.

"These tactics from the union of threatening strike action and cancelling it at the last minute, cause uncertainty for passengers, our staff and the airline.

"There is no basis to the union's claims they are cancelling industrial action due to aircraft maintenance issues, this is just a tactic," she said.

Ms Wirth said Qantas would resume negotiations for a new enterprise bargaining agreement for around 1600 of its licensed engineers.


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