Up to 535 Qantas employees will face termination, following the consolidation of Qantas’ heavy maintenance facilities.

Facilities in Avalon and Brisbane will remain open, while maintenance repairs at Tullamarine will be discontinued by August 2012.

In a statement issued this morning, the airline's chief executive Alan Joyce said the restructure was necessary as there is currently not enough heavy maintenance work required to operate three separate facilities.

Line maintenance will continue to be conducted at Tullamarine, employing over 300 workers.

Mr Joyce was positive about the impending situation, highlighting the airline’s commitment to preserving heavy maintenance repairs within Australia.

“Qantas has an outstanding track record in aircraft maintenance, and our commitment to setting a global standard for safety and quality in airline maintenance will never change.”

The airline chief was also resonant in moving forward and developing its approach to servicing aircraft.

“Qantas has invested heavily over the past 10 years in new aircraft that are more advanced, more efficient, attractive to our customers and require less maintenance, less often," Mr Joyce said.

"But we cannot take advantage of this new generation of aircraft if we continue to do heavy maintenance in the same way we did 10 years ago.”

According to the airline, Qantas will offer significant support packages for affected employees including redundancy packages well in excess of the legislative requirements, career transition, access to skills and training programs and counselling for employees and their families.

Plans to consolidate all services to Queensland were reported earlier in March of this year.