Qantas announces that it will reduce the prices of one million tickets as part of a seven-day sale.
Sales began on Monday and are valid for some single tickets on 85 routes with departures between October 2024 and July 2025.
A spokesman speaks of discounts of up to 30 percent.
Fares for major routes such as Melbourne to Sydney are $129 and Gold Coast to Sydney is $109. Major tourist routes such as Brisbane to Proserpine and Albury to Brisbane are also discounted.
In announcing the sale on Monday, Qantas drew attention to its latest airline scorecard results, which showed the airline was the best at on-time departures in July, with planes leaving the runway on schedule 74.1 percent of the time, up from 73 percent for Virgin.
The major CrowdStrike outage that affected Microsoft systems in mid-July harmed companies in most industries around the world.
However, Qantas has recently plummeted in the World Airline Awards rankings.
The Flying Kangaroo has moved up from fifth to 17th and now to 24th place in the last three years.
In the international airline awards announced in June, Virgin Australia dropped from 46th to 54th place, and Qantas subsidiary Jetstar fell from 69th to 74th.
In February, new Qantas CEO Vanessa Hudson announced half-year pre-tax profits of $1.25 billion, a 13 percent decline from the corresponding figure twelve months earlier.
It has been a turbulent year in the boardrooms of Australian airlines.
Bonza went into voluntary bankruptcy in April, less than 18 months after its first flight.
It has now come to light that 60,000 customers have to pay out of their own pockets, 323 employees are entitled to wages and holiday entitlements and 120 trade creditors have been short-changed.
On July 30, Rex filed for bankruptcy and canceled flights between major cities, but regional routes will continue to be offered.
Qantas and Virgin have offered to accommodate passengers with invalid Rex tickets at no additional charge.
Last week, Rex administrators asked the Federal Court to postpone the sales deadline until November.
