{"id":516581,"date":"2026-03-03T19:27:26","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:27:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516581\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T19:27:26","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:27:26","slug":"iran-chaos-exposes-qantas-poor-customer-protections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/516581\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran chaos exposes Qantas&#8217; poor customer protections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sudden closure of Middle Eastern airspace and airports after the US-Israeli strikes on Iran at the weekend has exposed the fact that Qantas has effectively outsourced a huge swath of international travel to the world\u2019s largest airline, Emirates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Some of the world\u2019s largest airline hubs have been shuttered, such as in Dubai (Emirates), Doha (Qatar) and Abu Dhabi (Etihad). At least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foreignminister.gov.au\/minister\/penny-wong\/transcript\/doorstop-parliament-house-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">115,000 Australians are stranded<\/a> in the region, and tens of thousands more who were preparing to travel to Europe, the UK, Africa, as well as foreign tourists and business people returning home, remain largely in limbo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sudden closure of Middle Eastern airspace and airports after the US-Israeli strikes on Iran at the weekend&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":516582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[84898,64,63,3148,99,78371,236403,5575,12241,3861,16861,2957],"class_list":{"0":"post-516581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business","8":"tag-alan-joyce","9":"tag-au","10":"tag-australia","11":"tag-aviation","12":"tag-business","13":"tag-consumer-rights","14":"tag-etihad","15":"tag-iran","16":"tag-middle-east","17":"tag-qantas","18":"tag-transport","19":"tag-usa"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=516581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/516581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/516582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=516581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=516581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=516581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}