Qantas has announced a $20 million free give away of tickets to those passengers affected by the Qantas grounding. Also, reimbursment of any additional ticket costs incurred with buying a ticket on another airline. Also, FF points free give aways to be announced. This brings the direct cost to Qantas to $50 million+ for the grounding. Plus, all the many indirect $$$ costs of this one Qantas management action.
A question for the union reps? What would have been the yearly cost to Qantas if management had given to your union what had been asked for on your EBA negotiations? I haven't seen any projected costings on this. Only AJ's comment on justification "of not allowing Qantas dying a death of a thousand cuts".