Stuck at home? How about some Qantas tea and bickies?

Times are clearly hard at Qantas. Now the airline is trying to sell its in-flight biscuits and tea bags.

With all overseas and most domestic flights halted during the pandemic, the Australian airline has thousands of premium-class pyjamas, moisturisers and snacks sitting idle.

For $25 apiece, frustrated travellers stuck at home can buy as many as 10 packs of typical freebies that include 12 chocolate biscuits, a sleeper suit, and the kind of smoked almonds that only first-class passengers normally munch. The packs are available in Qantas’ online store.

Qantas said in June it planned to raise as much as $1.9 billion from investors and cut at least 6000 jobs to weather the industry’s worst-ever crisis.

Selling on-board amenities was more about recovering costs than making money, a spokesman for the airline said Friday.

Bloomberg