{"id":386662,"date":"2026-03-14T16:30:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/qantas-74-million-covid-refund-settlement-jetstar-next\/"},"modified":"2026-03-14T16:30:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-14T06:30:23","slug":"qantas-74-million-covid-refund-settlement-is-a-payout-for-jetstar-passengers-next","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=386662","title":{"rendered":"Qantas&#8217; $74 Million COVID Refund Settlement: Is A Payout For Jetstar Passengers Next?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Australian carrier <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"254825\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/qantas\/\"  >Qantas<\/a><\/span> has agreed to pay out $74 million in settlement over not having properly handled the passenger refunds for flights canceled during the pandemic. This is the result of a class action lawsuit that was formed on behalf of the passengers who were affected due to flights canceled by Qantas between 2020 and 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Subject to court approval, the airline will be settling this case for $74 million &#8220;with no admission of liability&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,13477,476,273,633,719,515],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-386662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airline-refunds","category-airlines","category-australia","category-jetstar-airways","category-lawsuit","category-qantas"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=386662"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386662\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":386683,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386662\/revisions\/386683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}