Qantas leaders abandoned their speaking commitments at a major aviation conference, as the industry dissected the airline’s reputational crisis and heard pleas to disrupt the flying kangaroo’s dominance.
Jetstar CEO, Stephanie Tully, and Qantas executive manager of global sales and distribution, Igor Kwiatkowski, had both been advertised as speaking on panels about the state of the Australian air industry at the Centre for Aviation’s (Capa) conference in Brisbane on Thursday and Friday.