Thursday, November 29, 2007

Qantas accused of bullying

QANTAS has been accused of bullying travel agents to back out of an $80 million class action that alleges the carrier - along with five other airlines - illegally shortchanged the ticket commissions paid to 1450 agents.

Law firm Slater & Gordon yesterday asked the Federal Court to stop Qantas from offering sweetened commercial deals to travel agents in return for withdrawing from the action.

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