Qantas Says It’s Cutting A Bunch Of Domestic Flights ‘Cos The Price Of Fuel Is So Darn Expenny

Welp, Qantas is slashing at least 10 per cent of its domestic flights ’til March 2023 and it’s partly because of those fucked fuel prices. First cars, then lettuce, then electricity and now planes. Great. The company gave a stockmarket update — boring! — where it made the announcement. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, “capacity” will be cut on popular routes between Melb, Brissy and Sydney. Over both the long weekend

reports of cancellations and baggage issuesAlan JoyceSMHGovernment statsaccording to the ABCPhillip Adams

Alan Joyce. You force to repeat myself. I’m the author of ‘the spirit of Australia’.Then deserved, now tragically inappropriate. My slogan is hereby vetoed. Please remove it from all fuselages, tickets and advertising.

— Phillip Adams (@PhillipAdams_1) June 23, 2022

In their stockmarket announcement, the airline also confirmed it would be giving $5000 bonuses to around 19,000 of its staff.

But that move’s been criticised by a number of unions, including the Flight Attendants Association of Australia, the Australian Services Union and the Transport Workers Union.

They’ve called for the payment to be given to all Qantas workers according to the ABC. The unions also want the payment to go to a load of workers who lost their jobs when the airline decided to outsource in 2020.

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