Hundreds of Qantas engineers have stopped work for 24 hours at major airports around the country as a long-running pay dispute between the airline an unions threatens to disrupt thousands of travel plans.

Hundreds of Qantas engineers have walked off the job during one of the busiest times of the year after long-running wage negotiations between unions and the airline stalled. More than 500 engineers across major Australian airports began walking off the job from 3.

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Qantas engineers have walked off the job across Australia's capital cities on the first day of the busy Christmas holiday travel period.

Hundreds of Qantas engineers have walked off the job at airports around the country on one of the busiest travel days of the year.