9News can reveal Qantas executives and company staffers have been having fun with a "wellness competition" with yoga and meditation as airports alongside the east coast started to crumble below journey stress.
The corporate's operational employees have instructed 9News they're livid to listen to in regards to the occasion, which was held on the airline's Mascot headquarters in Sydney.
The occasion was designed to lure employees who've working from dwelling over the previous two years again to move workplace.
9News has obtained the itinerary of the competition, which included meditation, Zumba and canine remedy, the place workplace employees might pat a remedy canine.
Qantas has mentioned the occasion was not a regular incidence and was organised a very long time in the past.
Nearly all of the occasion was held earlier than the chaotic scenes began erupting at airports late final week however a key unions says it's livid.
The Transport Employees' Union (TWU) mentioned the occasion was insulting to each the employees at the moment working and to these sacked by Qantas.
"This information about Qantas, in a way, celebrating at HQ is a kick within the guts to those individuals and their households," TWU Nationwide Secretary Michael Kaine mentioned.
Frontline employees and passengers are once more being warned to count on extra chaotic scenes as Easter journey units in.
Melbourne's Tullamarine Airport is bracing for greater than 380,000 passengers over the following 5 days.
"We're going to a number of the busiest days we have really seen in home journey at our airport even pre-COVID - not to mention post-COVID," Melbourne Airport CEO Lyell Strambi mentioned.
"We're dealing with distinctive challenges.
"These challenges prolong to parking - extra individuals (are) arriving in non-public vehicles than ever and we're doing all we will to open extra parking areas to everyone."
Employees shortages additionally proceed to hit the workforce.
In a plea to unrostered pilots, Qantas claimed it was "critically brief" of captains and first officers, and wanted to fill gaps at present.
However former Qantas captain Richard de Crespigny has mentioned pilot shortages aren't presenting an excessive amount of of an issue for the airline.
"I feel Qantas has had six flights in jeopardy out of 1500 in the previous couple of days," he mentioned.
Melbourne Airport says points with baggage has been the foundation reason for the journey ache in latest days given the employees shortages in that space.
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