Fake engineer jailed for at least two years

A 26-year-old man who pleaded guilty to posing as a licensed Qantas maintenance engineer has been sentenced to at least two years behind bars.

Timothy McCormack worked in the job for 10 months between September 2006 and July 2007 even though he was not qualified.

Sydney's Downing Centre District Court heard McCormack was employed by Qantas in 2004 but did not pass the exam to obtain an engineer's licence.

In sentencing Judge Mark Marien said McCormack had embarked on a deliberate, calculated course of deceit to improve his status and pay rate at Qantas.

The judge described his actions as having potentially dangerous consequences.

He will be eligible for release in December 2010.

Former Qantas executive jailed

Price-fixing ... the jail term comes on top of a $61m for Qantas (Get Image)

A former senior Qantas executive has been sentenced to six months in a US jail for his role in price-fixing on international air cargo.

Bruce McCaffrey, 65, was once the most senior Qantas executive in North America.

A US judge in Washington DC has sentenced him to six months in jail and given him a $20,000 fine after he pleaded guilty to taking part in an international scheme to fix the price for air cargo shipments.

McCaffrey has today told the court he is very embarrassed and that he would like to apologise to the court and to his family.

Qantas has already paid a $61 million fine and eight other airlines have pleaded guilty too.