An industry analyst said, while they will still give Qantas the benefit of the doubt for now, the cancellation rate for Qantas was dangerously high.
BITRE said the May data was “significantly lower than the long-term average performance” on tracked routes.“We are adjusting our schedule and bringing extra resources,” Mr Joyce said at an international airline conference in Qatar. “We are at the moment fixing the operational issues to get our on time performance back to where it was before COVID-19. And we think in the weeks ahead, we will have done that.
If it continued, questions would grow louder on the sustainability of cost and job cuts, especially theIt would also prompt concern over whether Qantas was cancelling flights for operational or commercial reasons, the analyst said. They did not want to be named or quoted as they had not published a research note on the new BITRE figures.
Qantas is not the only carrier experiencing troubles as the aviation sector restarts operations in earnest after two years in hibernation. Airlines in Europe and the US are e BITRE said the May data was “significantly lower than the long-term average performance” on tracked routes. But May was still better than April, which the Bureau had dubbed the worst month since recording began.
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