Qantas executives enjoyed ‘wellness festival’ with PUPPY therapy – while passengers were miserable

Pampered Qantas executives indulged in puppy therapy and Zumba classes during working hours while passengers queued for hours as Australian airports botched a surge in demand.

The airline’s top-flight managers enjoyed a week of activities at a ‘wellness festival’ at its spacious Sydney headquarters, including patting a ‘stress-busting therapy puppy’.

Exhausted and furious passengers waited in line for up to three hours and even missed flights in Sydney due to the chaos.

It is widely believed that airline and airport executives could have predicted the disaster caused by understaffing and skyrocketing ticket sales.

Exhausted and furious passengers waited in line for up to two and a half hours and even missed flights in Sydney, but also in Melbourne and Brisbane after Qantas executives de-stressed by patting therapy dogs.

Pampered Qantas executives indulged in puppy therapy and Zumba classes for hours on end before passengers lined up for hours as Australian airports botched a surge in demand (pictured, Qantas executives’ schedule the week before the airport chaos)

As the airport began to fill up, Qantas executives returned to corporate headquarters with a week of cruising packed with a schedule of relaxation, 9News revealed.

They meditated, did yoga, pilates, got their bikes fixed and listened to “groovy music” during work hours as part of “campus activities” between April 4 and April 8 in Mascot.

On Qantas’ internal social network, staff criticized bosses for being out of touch with the reality of passenger demand at airports.

Airport check-in wait times set to worsen from Easter to Anzac Day

Sydney Airport CEO Geoff Culbert vowed to put executives to work in the terminals on Wednesday as he apologized in advance for the airport crash which was likely to escalate .

“The perspective of operational staff is that there is a complete disconnect between those on ‘campus’ and what is happening in the real world,” one employee said in a post, the The telegraph of the day reported.

A pilot said ‘in 27 years I’ve never seen it so bad’, noting he was delighted to be able to lock the cabin door and let ground staff and crew deal with the anger of the passenger.

While Qantas was not to blame for the explosion in airport waiting times – which are expected to worsen from Easter to Anzac Day – its CEO partly blamed the traveling public for the queues.

Alan Joyce has claimed painfully slow queues at Sydney Airport last weekend were due to travelers slowing down staff trying to process passengers because they were out of shape.

“I went through airports on Wednesday and people forget they have to get their laptops out, they have to get their spray cans out,” he told The Daily Telegraph.

Mr Joyce later apologized, but his comments were echoed by Sydney Airport’s general manager of operations.

On Qantas’ internal social media, staff blamed bosses for being out of touch with the reality of passenger demand at airports

Sydney Airport expects to see 910,000 passengers using its domestic terminal alone between April 14 and 26 – including 82,000 on Thursday, the most since the pandemic began

Greg Hay said passengers forgot to take laptops out of bags and couldn’t travel with spray cans.

“We have also noticed that people are not practicing security protocols, such as not taking laptops and aerosols out of their bags at checkpoints, which contributes to queues,” Mr. Hay.

Normally passengers traveling between states should arrive an hour earlier for a smooth check-in, but all airports are warning people to come at least two hours earlier for flights between Easter and Anzac Day a week later.

Sydney Airport CEO Geoff Culbert vowed to put executives to work in the terminals on Wednesday as he apologized in advance for the airport crash which was likely to escalate .

Normally passengers traveling between states should arrive an hour earlier for a smooth check-in, but all airports are warning people to come at least two hours earlier for flights between Easter and Anzac Day a week later.

Sydney Airport expects to see 910,000 passengers using its domestic terminal alone between April 14 and 26 – including 82,000 on Thursday, the most since the pandemic began.

“I know this is a difficult message to hear, but Thursday will be another difficult day for travellers, and I would like to apologize in advance to anyone who is inconvenienced.

“Tomorrow and throughout the school holidays, we are pulling all the levers at our disposal to keep people moving safely, including deploying senior managers and staff to our terminals to manage queues and make sure people get their flights.”