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31/08/23

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Originally posted by Hopeful9: ↑

Just like you and I, companies deserve to be regarded as 'innocent until proven guilty'.

However this from 'The Oz' on Thursday 31 August 2023 is another possible legacy of Mr Joyce, with Ms (Mrs?) Hudson right by his side throughout:

"The consumer watchdog has launched legal action against Qantas, alleging the airline advertised tickets for 8000 flights that had already been cancelled but not removed from sale.
In an explosive revelation, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission alleged that the flights in question were scheduled to depart between May and July 2022, and Qantas kept selling tickets for an average of more than two weeks after they were cancelled.
A statement by the ACCC alleged that for more than 10,000 flights scheduled to depart in that period, Qantas did not notify existing ticketholders their flights had been cancelled for an average of 18-days and in some cases for up to 48-days.
The ACCC further alleged that Qantas did not update its “Manage My Booking” web page for ticketholders to reflect the cancellation.
“This conduct affected a substantial proportion of flights cancelled by Qantas between May to July 2022,” said the ACCC.
“It’s alleged that for about 70 per cent of cancelled flights, Qantas either continued to sell tickets for the flight on its website for two days or more, or delayed informing existing ticketholders that their flight was cancelled for two days or more, or both..."

When it destroyed Aboriginal rock paintings in Western Australia, listed RIO copped a fair swathe of adverse media articles.

But QAN has had a lot more in the past week!

I hope the numerous travel writers who hardly ever (or never) criticise any aspect of a QAN international business class flight when the writer receives a freebie (they love it!) start to constructively criticise this hugely overated airline, given it's no longer 'flavour of the month' with millions of Australians.

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Why would they when they get free flights and accomodation, along with a press release that they can then copy/paste/publish?
MSM aviation and travel is beheld to QAN and Virgin for advertising $$$ so they get a free pass.

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