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The Federal government has announced that $715 million in fees and industry levies for Australian airlines will be waived in a relief package aimed to help them through major hits to tourism from global COVID-19 travel bans.
Alan Joyce has announced he’ll give up his salary for the remainder of the financial year after the Qantas Group announced capacity cuts equivalent to grounding 38 aircraft.
Jetstar has become the latest Australian airline to enter the aggressive local price war.
The Transport Workers Union has accused Jetstar of “disgraceful blackmail tactics” after the airline reached a deal with striking groundstaff and baggage handlers.
An ATSB investigation has revealed how a flap and landing gear retraction incident was caused by Jetstar crew inadvertently miscalculating take-off speeds on an A320 flight from Sydney to Melbourne.
Jetstar workers will lose nearly $200,000 in lifetime pay because of an 18-month wage freeze instigated in 2014, an investigation commissioned by the Transport Workers Union claims.
