This book is the account of the Qantas story that every airline passenger needs to read: the full and frank history of Australia's national airline. It takes you into the boardroom, where golden parachutes are signed off, and onto the hangar floor, where engineers battle accounting cuts to keep planes flying safely. It takes you back to the foundation of the airline to disprove the line that Qantas never crashes. This is the warts and all history the Qantas PR department does not want you to read ...but you can bet they'll be reading it too!

About the Author

MATTHEW BENNS is a journalist with The Sun Herald in Sydney. Before moving to Australia he worked in London for The Daily Mail, Today and The Sun. As a freelance his work appeared in The Times, The Telegraph and The Guardian and took him to countries as far flung as Ethiopia, the Russian Far East, India, America and Hong Kong. He is the author of When the Bough Breaks, published by Random House in 2003.