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Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’ (news.yahoo.com)
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Major airline faces backlash after using ‘ghost flights’ to exploit a legal loophole: ‘They weren’t even selling tickets’::Ultimately, it’s incumbent on lawmakers to take steps to ensure this practice is discouraged.

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[–] InverseParallax 85 points 1 year ago (15 children)

In this case, Qatar Airways was making these extra journeys to avoid caps that allow it to make only 28 weekly trips to Australia’s major airports, which includes Melbourne. Landing at Adelaide Airport, which is not among that list, as the final destination enabled the airline to make additional journeys to Melbourne, as there were no limits on flights to non-major airports.

Cute.

[–] Jackcooper 7 points 1 year ago (6 children)

So I get how that's bad for the environment and all

But why are their flights limited to 28 in the first place?

[–] doczombie 21 points 1 year ago (5 children)

There is a bit of a scandal in aus at the moment about this. Qatar asked for more international flights (they back Virgin Australia, one of 2 major domestic carriers in Australia). Government said no, for undisclosed reasons.

The "national" carrier Qantas are scumbags with the government in their pocket and likely quietly lobbied against it, but also Qatar International Airport did this to Australian citizens not that long ago:

https://amp.abc.net.au/article/12817070

So it's just kind of dickheads all the way down.

[–] WHYAREWEALLCAPS 5 points 1 year ago

I'm sure they investigated themselves and found no trace of wrong doing.

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