Job cuts as reward program faces pressure

With no regulation in sight over the airline’s pricing or oligopoly profits from the federal government, Qantas chief executive Vanessa Hudson has swung the ax with hundreds of jobs being cut across the company, including fresh losses of up to 130 staff in its Loyalty division.

Qantas confirmed dozens of jobs were hired last week will be cut It’s just in senior management, as part of a restructuring announced in December in which the company shrank its leadership team, merged all but one of its regional QantasLink subsidiaries into the local division and upgraded its newly expanded technology division, which is looking to integrate artificial intelligence, and is now under former QantasLink chief Rachel Yangoyan.