The two appointments will become effective from 9 October this year, according to a company statement published last week.

In his first comments since a damning report, Richard Goyder has argued Alan Joyce's top-down approach as CEO was necessary during COVID-19 but agreed with criticism the company didn’t do enough to revert back to normal when the pandemic ended.  

The 74.25 per cent interest is set to be acquired by a consortium comprising KKR and the Skip Essential Infrastructure Fund for an undisclosed amount, with the consortium reported to have defeated AustralianSuper, among others, in the bidding war. 

Court documents signed off by both the ACCC and Qantas have also disclosed that staff were aware customers were booking the cancelled services and that passengers weren’t notified immediately of the error.