Qantas and budget subsidiary Jetstar were responsible for most flight cancellations that could not be blamed on weather or air traffic control issues in June.
Planes operated by Qantas and its budget subsidiary, Jetstar, accounted for almost two-thirds of the flight cancellations that were not caused by bad weather or air traffic control issues on the busy Sydney-Melbourne route in June, new data from Sydney Airport has revealed.
On the 13 days in June with no specific weather or air traffic control issues in Sydney, 127 flights were cancelled by domestic airlines.Qantas boss Alan Joyce has blamed the airline’s high cancellation rate on factors it cannot control, such as thunderstorms and staffing shortages in air traffic control towers, that reduce the number of flights all airlines can operate in and out of Sydney.
”To disrupt fewer customers, the easiest thing we can do is to concentrate the cancellations on a high-frequency route like Melbourne to Sydney because that means that there’s a flight every half hour, and we can re-accommodate people on the later flights,” Mr Joyce told the committee. “They’re easiest to measure and certainly have the biggest impact in terms of inconvenience,” he said. “But every cancelled flight, whether it’s on the day or three weeks out, allows an airline to keep airfares higher than they otherwise would.”
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