Three years after stepping down as the airline’s chief executive, Alan Joyce has expressed regrets about its management during COVID – with some caveats.

It has been more than five years since Qantas announced the redundancies of 1820 people in a move the courts ruled unlawful. Most still haven’t been compensated.

Taking the blame for a chaotic post-COVID era, Joyce conceded that the airline struggled with soaring airfares and illegal job cuts, in comments made to media.