Senior Qantas staff are being offered the change to be ground crew.

Qantas asks executives to work as baggage handlers

Catherine Walbridge, 08.08.2022

Australia's flagship carrier is seeking to draft in its executives to temporarily become baggage handlers as it seeks to plug an acute labour shortage.

Airlines around the globe are struggling to recruit staff as travel ramps up again in the wake of the Covid pandemic. But Australian airline Qantas has taken a particularly novel approach to a shortage of ground crew, media reported.