QANTAS chief executive Alan Joyce says union claims the airline could shed more than 1000 jobs under its restructure plan are "nonsense."
Unions are considering industrial action against Qantas after it announced yesterday it would overhaul its international business.
The carrier said its five-year plan to create a premium service in Asia, and other restructuring measures, will help turn around the business.
"There's a lot of nonsense being talked about - the unions talked about there being 6000 jobs (impacted)," Mr Joyce said today in Canberra.
"There's a 1000 jobs impacted."
He said under the airline's plan, it would be able to create more jobs "here in Australia" in the future.
Mr Joyce said the comments about potential job losses had been made before.
"The same comments were made about Qantas in the domestic market 10 years ago, people were saying we're going to replace all of Qantas' flying with Jetstar, they were saying all of Qantas's jobs were going to disappear," he said.
"Today Qantas is the biggest carrier domestically ... creating more jobs domestically.
"We want to do the same in five years (internationally)."
The unions were undermining the airline, Mr Joyce said.
"We're seeing the unions continuing to trash the Qantas name, they're continuing to undermine Qantas," he said.
"They're continuing to make false accusations about Qantas offshoring which is not true, about safety concerns about Qantas, which is not true, and they're continuing to make false accusations across the board.
"That's not good for the 30,000 people employed by the company ... we don't need the union continuing to trash Qantas because this will damage their jobs."
Mr Joyce said the airline still hadn't decided where the premium Asian airline would be based but it had applied for permission in several countries.
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