The airline's head of operations has asked for 100 volunteers to fill the roles for three months.
The managers and executives were asked to work in the baggage handling roles for three or five days a week, in shifts of either four or six hours a day.
"We've been clear that our operational performance has not been meeting our customers' expectations or the standards that we expect of ourselves - and that we've been pulling out all stops to improve our performance," a Qantas spokesperson told the BBC.
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