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Qatar ends Qantas staff favours

Qatar Airways has ended a scheme that allowed Qantas staff to secure highly discounted business class upgrades for personal travel.

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The now-departed Alan Joyce’s competitive coup against Qatar Airways – whose request to double flights into major capital cities was denied by Transport Minister Catherine King – has been at the expense of both Australian travellers and the credibility of the government which so breezily facilitated it.

It has also, we suspect, blown up in the faces of Qantas’ employees.

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Myriam Robin is Rear Window editor based in the Melbourne newsroom. A Rear Window columnist since 2017, she previously reported on financial markets and media. Connect with Myriam on Twitter. Email Myriam at myriam.robin@afr.com

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