Exclusive: Consumer advocates say Australia adopting an EU-style compensation scheme would ‘incentivise airlines to run on time’
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The Coalition and consumer groups have accused Qantas of cherrypicking data to invert the conclusion of a study when the airline argued against laws to compensate delayed passengers.
On Monday the Qantas domestic chief executive, Markus Svensson, appeared before a Senate committee hearing into the Coalition’s proposed “pay-on-delay” bill, which seeks to adopt an Australian version of the scheme in place in the European Union.
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