The consumer watchdog alleges the national carrier breached consumer law by advertising tickets for more than 8000 cancelled flights between May and July last year. Follow updates here.
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission has published the following list of flights that Qantas allegedly cancelled between May and July 2022.
Qantas flight QF81 was scheduled to depart from Sydney to Singapore on June 4, 2022. On February 8, 2022, Qantas made the decision to cancel the flight. Despite this, Qantas did not remove the flight from sale until March 27, 2022, and did not inform existing ticket holders of the cancellation until March 28, 2022.
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