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This Airline Faces A Massive Scandal Selling Fake Flights To Nearly 1M Travelers

Last updated: 2024/09/28 at 1:53 PM
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New particulars have emerged concerning the extent of the “Pretend Flights” scandal involving Qantas Airways Ltd., Australia’s largest airline, which was promoting non-existing flights between Could 2022 and 2024.

Again in Could, the service agreed to pay $82 million in fines to 1000’s of vacationers who had been deceived into reserving flights that both didn’t exist or had been canceled.

Throughout this era, and significantly within the months following the nation’s reopening after the pandemic, Qantas’ former CEO, Alan Joyce, was regularly seen mingling with prime trade leaders, making headlines for his disruptive methods to draw clients who had been nonetheless hesitant to journey after a quite lengthy lockdown.

In March 2022, Qantas introduced the launch of its personal NFTs with the promise that passengers who bought these tokens would obtain unique bonuses when flying with the airline.

A normal advertising technique, you’d say—till it was revealed that 71,000 of these flights had been truly pretend.

Whereas this scandal was revealed six months in the past, current judicial revelations have make clear the complete extent of Qantas’ “misconduct.”

Courtroom paperwork revealed this week point out that senior managers had been absolutely conscious of this widespread scheme. This info was not disclosed when the lawsuit was first settled, making the true scale of the deception unclear till now. 


The corporate offered these tickets to over 87,000 vacationers who had been initially recognized because the “affected events,” nevertheless it has now been established that just about 1 million clients had been additionally impacted in a much wider sense.

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As issues stand, this bigger determine consists of not solely those that bought pretend tickets but additionally the 884,000 passengers who had been supplied flights that Qantas knew can be canceled, revealing the extent of the airline’s misleading practices, in keeping with an announcement of agreed information and admissions posted on the official federal courtroom web site.

“Qantas was conscious of the way in which wherein its system operated,” the submitting mentioned. “Customers suffered hurt on account of Qantas’s contravening conduct.”

The courtroom discovered that the Australian flag service had the choice to right away take away canceled flights from its platform however selected not to take action.

As an alternative, they stored promoting tickets for these now “ghost flights” for about 11 days and took just about the identical period of time to tell clients about the actual flight standing.

“Everybody feels ache on the anger,” not too long ago appointed Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson instructed CNN in Dubai just a few months in the past. “It’s not simply me; It’s 25,000 those who work for us as properly. As a result of not solely did we let our clients down, we let our individuals down.”

It’s exhausting to not query whether or not different airways around the globe might need engaged in related techniques to hurry up their monetary restoration after the pandemic.

Whereas it’s robust to say for sure, vacationers ought to now keep vigilant towards potential airline abuses and take motion by submitting complaints every time one thing appears suspicious about their flights.

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