Qantas reveals it's holding extra $100 million in unused Jetstar flight credits

📆 28/08/2023 8:53 PM

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Alan Joyce has defended his leadership of Qantas after a year of bumper profits and surging complaints.

The Qantas Group had not previously disclosed that $100 million figure, which is not included in the $370 million in Australian Qantas flight credits it announced last week.

It also emerged the airline has around another $50 million in overseas flight credits that are yet to be used, although it has refunded or redeemed about $3 billion in credits since the outbreak ofCredits are due to expire at the end of the year, when, if they're yet to be claimed or refunded, their value will be claimed by Qantas.

The government denied the application, saying it wouldn't be in the national interest – despite experts claiming the extra flights would lower prices for Australians travelling overseas. Joyce also claimed the extra Qatar flights wouldn't have been in the national interest and denied the extra flights would have brought down prices, claiming they are falling already.

"Qatar can add capacity through flying bigger aircraft to cities like Adelaide, Darwin," Joyce said.

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