Qantas cutting domestic capacity by 5%

[justinbrett]

It's not strict-strict, I've got a colleague booked to arrive on QF12 connecting onto 1431 (the 1:40 connection) on a single ticket next week.

There might have been leeway to book that connection from the call centre given the cancellation of the original connecting flight and the horrid wait time until the next one after 1431.

I'm on the same flight pair but my SYD-CBR is a separate ticket so I had problems changing that.

If we miss our connecting flight we'll probably just hire a car and drive back to Canberra rather than wait for the next flight 5 hours later.

I’m not sure if there’s an exception for CBR but I had a 1:45 connection to OOL that has now blown out to 5+ hours as it’s no longer legal. It was legal when it was booked.

 

[FlyingKangaroo]

My employer (large asx) is pushing the less travel card. No Policy as such, just continued comments around waste and is the trip even worth it, these comments came from the CEO on a recent town hall. You would be surprised how much some companies spend by having certain people travelling around the place just to showcase their ego. I do can without those visits from these people to my office!

Similar story at mine, a large US tech company. My partner works for a mid-sized AU-based subsidiary of a Japanese conglomerate and they've formally pulled back only to essential travel. They also enslave themselves to Qantas despite having no exclusive corporate contract with them and paying the premium, which apparently will now be even higher. Make it make sense.

There's nothing more delightful than "leaders" travelling around the world on corporate junkets to give buzzword-laden lectures to the masses about responsible travel spend. A tale as old as the Corporations Act, now modernly seasoned with AI slop.

 

[PERLHR]

My employer (large asx) is pushing the less travel card. No Policy as such, just continued comments around waste and is the trip even worth it, these comments came from the CEO on a recent town hall. You would be surprised how much some companies spend by having certain people travelling around the place just to showcase their ego. I do can without those visits from these people to my office!

Can't agree more. I remember when in the UK we had over many years somewhere from of travel restriction and even bans (so it's nothing new), but somehow head quarters/ office individuals always seemed to be arriving just to disrupt our working day(s). As far as inter state goes I often don't see the point of wasted days travel, time differences sometimes as much as the flight itself and what really needs to be done F2F compared to a teams call...(Unless the travel is for say 5 days consecutive work). My other half now just travels away on a Sunday to work destination for a couple of.days of meetings. She seems to have reality check that Sunday is actually part of weekend that she is not paid for!

As for the reduction in routes/timetables etc...i see it as simply something the airlines are doing on thin orultiple.routes where they can use fuel costs as an excuse to stop/reduce/amalgamate without bad press!