Qantas employees are thieves

[Bobby]

They stole money from 87,000 customers.
It's theft - plain and simple.
Why aren't 100 or more Qantas employees in jail -
including that Irish gnome?


https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-06/ ... /103808054

Qantas and ACCC reach $120 million settlement on airline selling cancelled flights

By business editor Michael Janda and business reporter Nassim Khadem
Posted Mon 6 May 2024

In short: Qantas will pay a $100 million penalty for misleading customers by selling tickets to flights that had already been cancelled.
Affected Qantas domestic customers will receive a payment of $225 and international ticketholders $450 as compensation, on top of any remedies these customers have already received.
What's next? The Federal Court needs to approve the deal, and payments are not expected to be made until next financial year, after June 30.

Qantas has reached an agreement with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) to settle a lawsuit against the airline for selling seats on flights that had already been cancelled.

Under the settlement, Qantas will institute a remediation program for affected passengers, with payments ranging from $225 for affected domestic customers to $450 for international customers, which are expected to total about $20 million.

"It's expected to be around 87,000 consumers, who were the ones who were sold tickets on flights that Qantas had already decided to cancel," ACCC chair Gina Cass-Gottlieb told ABC News.

The ACCC said these payments are additional to any remedies already offered by Qantas, such as alternative flights or refunds.

Subject to the approval of the Federal Court of Australia, Qantas will also pay a $100 million civil penalty to the federal government for breaching the Australian Consumer Law.

[Bobby]

Can a bank robber pay a large fine and not be jailed for theft?

[Bobby]

Any employee at Qantas who knew that customers were being swindled
and did not report it to the police is guilty of conspiracy to defraud customers.
Why aren't the cops charging them?

The cops would go after you till the ends of the Earth for a parking fine
but not after thieves in a position of trust.
It was a massive theft.

[Frances]

Qantas employees are thieves? They would probably deny the allegation and invoke the Nuremberg defence.

[Bobby]

Qantas employees are thieves? They would probably deny the allegation and invoke the Nuremberg defence.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superior_orders

Superior orders, also known as the Nuremberg defense or just following orders, is a plea in a court of law that a person, whether a member of the military, law enforcement, or the civilian population, should not be considered guilty of committing crimes that were ordered by a superior officer or official.[1][2]

The superior orders plea is often regarded as the complement to command responsibility.[3]

One of the most noted uses of this plea, or defense, was by the accused in the 1945–1946 Nuremberg trials, such that it is also called the "Nuremberg defense". The Nuremberg trials were a series of military tribunals, held by the main victorious Allies after World War II, most notable for the prosecution of prominent members of the political, military, and economic leadership of the defeated Nazi Germany. These trials, under the London Charter of the International Military Tribunal that established them, determined that the defense of superior orders was no longer enough to escape punishment, but merely enough to lessen punishment.