Jetstar outlines plans to protect customer travel this weekend

Jetstar has outlined contingency plans to cope with the Australian Federation of Air Pilots’ (AFAP) work stoppages this weekend, which it says are “completely unjustifiable and cynically timed to hurt travellers at the busiest travel time of the year”. To minimise the impact on customers by the four-hour stop work periods, Jetstar is consolidating some services, up-gauging aircraft, re-timing flights and Qantas and QantasLink will operate a number of supplementary services. Overall, Jetstar will cancel 44 services on Saturday 14 December and 46 services on Sunday 15 December and Jetstar will contact impacted customers from today. On average Jetstar operates