Qantas says sorry with free tickets. 

Please do not contact me to request tickets, I am only the gray nomad blogger who is delighted that some quick reimbursement has been offered to the thousands of people who were inconvenienced during the recent grounding of the aircrafts. I am not Qantas and have nothing to do with the refunds and free offers.  Please contact Qantas directly if you feel you qualify and they do not contact you themselves.  Feel very welcome to comment here about how the groundings affected you.

Qantas plans to give away 100,000 tickets worth $20 million as its way of saying "sorry" to passengers affected by the grounding of its entire fleet last weekend.

Tens of thousands of people were stranded in Australia and around the world when the airline grounded all flights for two days, as the result of an ongoing industrial dispute with its staff.

Flights have since returned to normal after Fair Work Australia terminated all industrial action between the airline and unions and ordered them back to the negotiating table.

All passengers whose flights were disrupted in the stoppage from 5pm on October 29 to 11.59pm on October 31, will be offered a free return economy flight to any destination within Australia, or a trans-Tasman flight to New Zealand and back.

Passengers who bought tickets on other airlines to make up for the missed flights will also be reimbursed for the difference between the new flight and their original Qantas flight.

It comes on top of the airline's decision to reimburse people whose flights were cancelled, and pay for their accommodation.