Qantas Airways has been scrambling to get its planes in the air again after grounding its entire fleet over the weekend in a bold tactic to force the government to intervene in the nation's worst labor dispute in a decade.

About 70,000 passengers were disrupted by the stoppage and Qantas says its lost about $70 million from the industrial action since September.

At the government's instigation, Australia's labor tribunal ordered Qantas to resume flights and banned trade unions, which have waged a damaging campaign of industrial action, from staging more strikes.

Emma Buckley Lennox reports on what the unions wanted and what happened at Fair Work Australia overnight.

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