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Sydney airline (Newsdesk) Qantas faces a $120 million fine for selling tickets for canceled flights. The airline has agreed to pay $100 million in fines and $20 million in compensation to passengers. Passengers will be paid between $225 and $450.
A deal has been struck between Qantas and the consumer watchdog. Qantas has sold thousands of tickets for canceled flights on its system Qantas announced on Monday that it had reached an agreement with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission to pay fines and compensation. The matter was in court since last August.
The number of canceled flight tickets sold is more than 8 thousand. Because of this scandal, the former CEO of Qantas, Alan Joyce, had to take early retirement This is the biggest case of corporate fines in Australia. In 2019, Volkswagen’s biggest case for breaching Australian consumer law was when it agreed to pay $125 million in damages for misleading consumers.
The fine that Qantas has agreed to pay will be subject to approval by the Federal Court of Australia, Gina Cass Gottlieb, that the settlement recognizes that Qantas has defrauded its customers This is unacceptable as many would have taken holidays and arranged trips fun He said Qantas had given a written guarantee that such omissions would not happen again.
