Travelinfo.ca
QANTAS will use larger aircraft, consolidate services and deploy management to act in operational roles in and effort to minimise disruptions to passengers in light of a strike by members of the Transport Workers Union (TWU).
The TWU has instructed its members to walk off the job on Tuesday, September 20 for four hours during the morning peak in most airports and the afternoon peak in Canberra and Adelaide as well as placing a ban on higher duties which could impact operations for two days.
Qantas group executive, Olivia Wirth, said the airline was focussed first and foremost on getting passengers to the destinations as quickly as possible and overcoming the “destructive industrial” action taken by the union.
“The TWU is intent on causing disruptions to Qantas passengers and we are doing everything we possibly can to reduce the delays and cancellations,” Wirth said.
Qantas will publish an updated schedule in the coming days and will contact any passenger who has been affected by the strike to make alternative travel arrangements.
Wirth continued to say that Qantas was very concerned that three unions were working together to “attack” Qantas in a coordinated campaign.