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Qantas continuing to sell tickets for flights that won’t take off, pilots claim

With one of its long-haul aircraft out of service, international flights will be cancelled because Qantas has no spare planes, engineers and pilots tell Crikey.

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Nothing wrong with jumping on the bandwagon

Jump aboard the bandwagon, baby!

Newcastle Herald

‘Everybody has a Qantas horror story’: run of negative headlines brings Flying Kangaroo down to earth

Alan Joyce’s airline portrayed itself as a second home for passengers, but as complaints soar is the brand now toxic?

The Guardian - AU

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‘Only at Qantas’: workers express disbelief at CEO Alan Joyce’s $10m share windfall

Unions say bonus payments, revealed to the ASX on Friday, ‘reward management for short-term thinking and cost cutting’

The Guardian - AU

Qantas has tickets on itself

The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission is going after Qantas for allegedly selling tickets on thousands of flights it had already cancelled, and the Greens and Labor are now fighting a ‘super war’ over paid parental leave.

Crikey

Grattan on Friday: It can be a battle to get information from the Albanese government

Thank goodness for Senate committees. This week, they’ve proved, yet again, to be worth their weight in accountability gold.

The Conversation

Australia fumes over soaring airfares as Qatar Airways flights blocked

Canberra is being accused of protecting national carrier Qantas’s bottom line at the expense of consumers.

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‘They want ticket prices to keep going up’: pilots hit out at Qantas’ competition stranglehold

Qantas pilots have slammed CEO Alan Joyce, telling Crikey he is ‘intentionally keeping capacity down to keep prices up’.

Crikey

Qantas flight credits: Albanese says customers should get another flight or their money back

PM weighs in on expiring credits but government defends blocking Qatar airways from increasing its flights to Australia

The Guardian - AU

Something stinks. Should Labor’s Qantas bromance go to the corruption watchdog?

The cosy relationship between the Albanese government and Qantas is crinkling the nose. It needs to be investigated.

Crikey

Trump trumped on his date in court

Donald Trump will face a federal criminal trial in Washington DC on March 4 2024, years earlier than he’d wanted, and Australia’s whistleblower protection laws ‘have not successfully protected a single person since their inception’.

Crikey

Five key moments from Qantas boss Alan Joyce’s Senate grilling

Outgoing CEO faces fiery questions on the airline’s credibility, executive pay and ‘hoarding’ of flight slots

The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Alan Joyce grilled at Senate inquiry; record number of Australians facing mortgage stress; and Murray cod numbers dwindle

Almost one-third of mortgage holders are at risk of mortgage stress – worse than at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008

The Guardian - AU

CEO grilled at fiery inquiry – as it happened

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Fortune

Airline rewards staff with a bonus worth more than $7,000 after posting a record profit - and even its customers can cash in

Up to 21,000 pilots, cabin crew, engineers, and head office staff at Qantas Airways are set to receive around $219 million as a thank-you bonus.

The Guardian - AU

Labor running ‘protection racket’ for Qantas by blocking extra Qatar airways flights, opposition claims

Peter Dutton tells Today show the price of flights is ‘astronomical’ and competition with Qantas would bring downward pressure on prices

Crikey

Qantas’ bloated profit is built on underpaid workers and overpaying passengers

The national airline’s domestic side went from a $765m loss in 2022 to a profit of $1.27bn in 2023, a 63% leap on pre-COVID numbers.

The Guardian - AU

Qantas record profit: delight for shareholders, distrust and derision from customers

The company has achieved an eye-watering annual profit – but at the expense of soaring ticket prices, record complaints and plummeting trust

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The Guardian - AU

Afternoon Update: Qantas posts record profit; Malka Leifer sentenced to 15 years; and Republicans feud over Trump

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The Guardian - AU

Qantas delivers record $2.47bn profit on back of soaring demand and high ticket prices

CEO Alan Joyce hails ‘remarkable turnaround’ for airline whose results were a stark change from a year earlier, when it fell to a $1.86bn loss

The Guardian - AU

Morning Mail: Russia mutiny leader Prigozhin in fatal plane crash, $191m blown on Centrelink software, India on moon

Yevgeny Prigozhin was one of 10 passengers on a plane that crashed with no survivors, officials say; Shorten abandons failed Infosys payment software

The Guardian - AU

Australian Senate summons Qantas CEO to appear before cost-of-living inquiry

Qantas boss Alan Joyce called before Australian Senate inquiry to explain high ticket prices and controversial travel credit scheme

Crikey

Blast from the past for Linda Reynolds

Former defence minister Linda Reynolds has recanted her Supreme Court evidence that she was never told Brittany Higgins had disclosed ‘I remember him on top of me’, and the Labor Party memberships of two Melbourne men were renewed for two years after they died.

Crikey

Qantas’ support is the last thing the Yes campaign needs

The national airline’s support for the Yes campaign will delight those in the No campaign. And its support for a ‘fair go’ is risible.

The Conversation

Qantas throws weight behind Voice with travel for 'yes' campaigners

Qantas is providing travel for the Yes23 campaign and the Uluru Dialogue teams “so they can engage with regional and remote Australians”.

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