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CANBERRA, Australia - A Qantas flight bound for Australia returned to New Zealand shortly after takeoff on Saturday because the cabin was losing air pressure, the airline said.
Qantas spokesman Joe Aston could not explain the malfunction but said it was not an emergency.
The Boeing 737 with 91 passengers and crew aboard was flying from Auckland to the Australian east coast city of Brisbane.
"At about 25,000 feet (7,600 meters), while it was climbing out of Auckland, it experienced a subtle pressurization problem," Aston said.
"The cabin was depressurizing at a controlled rate, but not rapidly, and not noticeably to passengers and it certainly never was depressurized to an unacceptable level," he added.
A replacement jet brought the passengers to Brisbane almost three hours late.
New Zealand air safety authorities will likely investigate.
The Australian carrier underwent a safety review last year after a series of problems, including an oxygen tank explosion on a Boeing 747-400 that ripped a hole in the jet's fuselage last July, forcing it to make an emergency landing in the Philippines. No one was injured.
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