Qantas will spend $80m in a bid to restore its damaged relationship with customers but pilots have joined calls for the embattled airline's chairman to resign.
They claim his "woeful" decisions have dealt a massive blow to workforce morale.Qantas pilots have joined calls for the airline's chairman to resign after a series of "woeful" decisions that have smashed workforce morale and customer trust.
"The morale of Qantas pilots has never been lower. We have totally lost confidence in Goyder and his board." More generous recovery support when operational issues arise, a review of longstanding policies for fairness, and improvements to the quality of in-flight catering are also among the planned improvements, it said.
The airline will spend $2.8 billion on fuel in the back half of 2023 - an increase of about $200 million - after a 30 per cent price spike since May.
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