Qantas agrees to pay $79 million in compensation and a fine for selling seats on canceled flights

Headline: The Gazette

Australia’s flagship airline Qantas has agreed to pay $120 million Australian dollars ($79m) to settle a lawsuit over the sale of tickets for already cancelled flights.
Aljazeera
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission sued the Sydney-based airline in the Federal Court last year.
Hindustan Times
Under the settlement, Qantas will kick off the 20 million-Australian-dollar (about 13.2 million U.S. dollars) remediation program for more than 86,000 impacted passengers, with payments ranging from 225 to 450 Australian dollars (about 148 to 297 U.S. dollars), and also face a penalty of 100 million Australian dollars (about 66.1 million U.S. dollars), subject to the approval of the Federal Court of Australia.
XinhuaNet
The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) case had initially been filed based on cancellation data during a May-July 2022 monitoring period – a window when 15,000 out of 66,000 Qantas services were cancelled – alleging it had advertised and sold tickets for more than 8,000 flights that it had already cancelled in its internal system, while taking up to 47 days to notify affected customers.
Guardian

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