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Qantas to lay off staff amid restructuring
Australia’s big two carriers are tightening their belts.
Qantas is expected to announce redundancies as it restructures its head office operations.
Qantas group CEO Alan Joyce said the aim is to improve efficiency across many areas of the business and reduce ‘complexity.’
Media talk of up to 1,200 job cuts are wide of the mark, a Qantas spokesman said, but confirmed some jobs will go.
"We recently confirmed that our group executive committee would reduce by one and there would be consolidation of some corporate roles where it made sense to do so, but the figures being quoted are wrong," the spokesman said.
"To be clear about this, we are still growing in cabin crew, in pilots, in airport staff. We have a new aircraft arriving next week."
The downsizing will likely be restricted to middle management and administrative positions.
It is blaming a slowdown in domestic demand.
Rival Virgin Australia announced it will trim domestic capacity by about 2% and offload five aircraft from its fleet.
It will suspend its Melbourne – Hong Kong route as pro-democracy protests continue to impact demand.
However it recently announced it will launch flights from Brisbane to Tokyo Haneda next March after securing a landing slot at the Tokyo airport.
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