These are tough times at Qantas. So tough the national airline has taken the sacrilegious decision to flog off its famous business-class pyjamas for $25 a pop to its altitude-starved high-flyers.
The unorthodox bid to raise cash didn’t rate a mention when chief executive Alan Joycehanded down a COVID-19 hit underlying full-year profit before tax of $124 million on Thursday. But a few days earlier, Qantas said its offer to home-deliver its business-class sleeping suits, 12 individually wrapped Tim Tams, a 200-gram pack of smoked almonds (served in First Class) and a packet of 10 T2 Lemongrass and Ginger tea bags for $25 should be thought of as a “random act of kindness” to offer a friend.
It has plenty of excess warehouse stock of the good stuff, business-class flights (or flights of any sort, really) being almost extinct these days. Might as well use it, Qantas said, to “cheer people up”.
On the other hand: next time you collect your in-flight business-class goodies, you’ll know exactly how much of the $10,000 airfare they constitute. The answer being a mere $25.
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