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A judge on Monday (August 18, 2025) fined Qantas Airways 90 million Australian dollars ($59 million) for illegally firing more than 1,800 ground staff at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The penalty is in addition to the AUD 120 million ($78 million) in compensation that Australia’s biggest airline had already agreed to pay its…
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Qantas acknowledged that it did indulge in such malpractices May 2021 and August 2023. Australia’s competition watchdog, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC), revealed that Qantas “admitted that it misled consumers” by advertising seats on tens of thousands of flights, despite the fact that these flights had already been cancelled. What is the issue?…
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