DOWNFALL - The Sad State Of Qantas
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- Qantas has carried Australians for more than 100 years around the globe. However, in recent years and especially months, its downfall as a leading Australian company couldn't be louder. From an outgoing CEO, illegal hirings, selling cancelled tickets and much more, this is what the Australian flag carrier has on its plate currently.
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If the out going CEO Alan Joyce had his way he would've had one pilot flying two vending machines for passengers to grab snacks and drinks with no cabin crew. Once a great airline now rippled with greed just to keep the shareholders happy and filling the CEO's pockets with $$$ at the expense of passengers.
I've been flying Qantas between NY and BNE for 45 years. Business Class the last 25. The tickets were between $6000 and $7000 pre covid. Now around $13,500. I have no idea what's going on at Qantas, but it's shameful.
And they dropped the baggage allowance down from 40kg to 32kg.
That's not just quantas, Emirates business class for my regular trip has gone from £2200 pre pandemic to over£5000 now.
Seems the airlines are recouping the money lost during pandemic.
That's interesting since Emirates is flying the a380s, while Qantas ditched nearly all its big planes for 787s.
@@mikewilliams274
you should see what they're doing in Australia. they were selling tickets for flights they had cancelled and refused any kind of refund no matter what the situation.
Go Singapore far better service. I gave Qantas the ass 7 years ago.
The facts against Qantas are damning. The allegations against Qantas are shocking. The prices of Qantas international flights in premium cabins are hyper-inflated against every carrier on similar or same routes. Many staff feel deflated and under appreciated which will reflect in the service customers experience. Right now it’s a mess. Can it change, yes. But the work needs to be done by the ELT and Board, and quickly.
This is capitalism. We can blame Alan Joyce but he has done EXACTLY what a CEO should do which is extract profits as much as possible which makes him a good CEO in that regard. The morals of his strategy is a different story, If Qantas wants to be a beloved brand then it will have to be less profitable and may even need to be partially government owned. Qantas basically has to compete in a cutthroat market where alot of different airline brands exist and allow Australians to travel at lower prices. This is really what is behind it all.
Until Goyder falls on his sword for being Joyce’s chief supporter and cheer leader of everything that has caused the current brand loss, then Hudson stands little chance of achieving a lasting turnaround of brand value.
The man is deafer than a log of wood. I question who else on the Board was a cheerleader for Joyce?
The Board needs a proper clean up😊, starting at the top before I will travel QF again (a once loyal QF FF since 1973 ! )
When the mindset of executives is on profit only and not service first disasters like these are bound to happen
How long are we going to keep excusing all kinds of shenanigans under the guise of cost cutting
Cost cutting for what purpose ?
If management cannot devise a model that balances a good airline service with the right economics they have no business being at the helm
Leave your padded jobs and let someone qualified take over
Just sick of hearing this same lame excuse and cycle again and again
If you can’t handle it right. LEAVE please
Completely agree. Sadly your analysis applies to politicians.
Sounds like Boeing Cost Cutting due 2 Profits over safety and hence why the 2 B737 Death)maxes have crashed and i wouldn't trust Boeing ever again to this day there still full of clowns
Boeing learnt that the hard way.
sadly the whole world runs like this. Management deep down cut cost. if you are one of those people who are trying to stop this then go up to them and say your things
@@anthonymaddison9588...maybe the politicos and theirfamilies get a huge discount for flying QF?
Just treat your staff good and don't try to steal your customers money! It really isn't that hard. Qantas should be at the standard of SQ with all the international destinations they have but no! Too much greed.
greed runs the world sadly
SQ's economy class product is unfortunately going downhill tho.
Joyce is running Qantas like a low cost carrier without the low fares
@@nickolliver3021 Capitalism enables greed and such rampant exploitation of workers. Time to throw it in the lake 👌
Yep, I avoid Qantas and Jetstar now. Horrible corporation!
This is a gross example of corporate greed. How convenient that Joyce sped up his own resignation date.
The people demand a real punishment. If Qantas has to pay out millions of dollars it wont be enough. The people responsible, need to be punished for justice sake.
My last QF flight was a J class flight from BNE to AKL. Earlier that year I'd flown J class in the upper deck of their 747 to LA and back, yet this Trans-Tasman hop was nothing in comparison service wise. On return from Auckland Qantas put me on an Emirates A380. Their business class was far better than what Qantas had to offer. from that moment on, I knew that my flights to Europe from then on would be with Emirates. Since then, I've also tried Singapore, Etihad and Thai. As long as Hudson is at the helm, I will not spend a single dollar on a Qantas flight.
Last flew Qantas 20 years ago. Now it's SIA, all the way.
Thank you for mentioning the good staff at Qan. I feel for those folks on the ground (and off) that have been badly let down by management (and customers too).
I've witnessed great kindness and understanding from ground staff when I've flown with my elderly mum. Thank you Qantas staff, sorry the good ones are copping the flack and 'up yours' management..
I had more than enough lies from more than enough QF staff when chasing my refund. Or the times they promised to transfer my call but hung up instead. On top of poor customer service on the ground and in flight going back years. No change at QF will win me back
Selling a product that you know you cannot supply is fraud. Some executives need to be jailed
Thank you for your time developing and creating these excellent videos and your narrations. This discussion is always the result of corporate greed. Always about profits, number one…same stories in America too, in decades past. Who suffers? The customers, workers, suppliers…..
Vanessa Hudson is an equivalent AJ nightmare for Qantas. She will only continue AJ's management approach. A massive strategic error of the BOD, an extremely arrogant pattern for which they are known for...but they know they can always cuddle into the arms of the Australian government. I'd be shocked if any QF management would ever be successful outside of Australia.
Olivia Wirth was a worse option. Frankly, they need a completely new executive team and board, staying out of politics, and focused on returning full service to a full service airline.
Put it this way - when Aussie pilots are taking ACMI and ULCC jobs on the E3 scheme over QF that tells you enough.
The new CEO was the COO of the company, so she is also responsible of the company problems..
CFO.
annnd she came from Jetstar...
Haha, so did Joyce. The both of them are trying to turn Qantas into a low cost carrier without the low prices😂😂
They also did something I cannot accept… retiring the 747
Once an airline of great pride for Australians, having flown internationally on their A380s and 747s, now in tatters and an embarrasment. Alan Joyce really did a number on Qantas, and has divided more Australians by supporting the governments voice to parliament (which polls show only has about 40% support for) in exchange for blocking competition from Qatar and others. Absolutely shameful.
Typical executive class who think more about their stock options than the dedicated people who run the show. Your business IS your people for without these people your stock options would be worthless. TREAT them right.
Once greed sets in. You can’t see straight or think straight. With Qantas, it wasn’t customer service. It was customer no service.
Qantas, listen to customers and take their letters serious. When you continuously make excuses. It’s a sign of incompetence. AJ was more concerned about long haul endurance flights.
I wouldn’t hold my breath. I used to like it. I flew back from London last October in an A380. It was a good flight but stopping in Changi left a lot to be desired. I think Qantas was overall okay. However, I don’t like how management treated staff or passengers.
Sounds very similar to BA's demise.....................unfortunately very few businesses these days put customer satisfaction at the core of their business plan. Strange because you can only piss customers off so far then, bam, you lose them, and getting customers back is one of the hardest things to achieve.
I’m in Darwin and pre Covid we had flights on Jetstar to many international destinations but mainly Singapore and Bali. Post covid we have a limited number to Bali only and no Singapore at all. Convenient timing or just not in their interest as they have past it off to their mates at Singapore airlines who charge twice to three times the amount for the same flight. Bali trips are packed to the rafters and fly at late evening arriving in Darwin at 3 am. Premium price tag with discounted service and no competition. This is not just a quanta’s issue but an industry issue (including our monopolised airports ) protectionist practices, monopolised routes and poor customer service on all levels after the pandemic. And we the consumers/ tax payers payed their bills over covid while they used the pandemic to screw their own staff… I’m over these companies
I miss the old days a few years ago could find a $350 one way from Melbourne too Thai or Bali on Jetstar never late or cancelled
Qantas needs to go back and revisit what service was thirty to forty years ago, because the customer service they offer now is pretty well pathetic in comparison. But then again this would be the result of the lack of support to the staff by the management structure, because the staff are not respected or appreciated as they used to be either by their management structure. There is also the new policy of bumping aircraft in order to save money, which is common with regards to JetStar as well. As has been mentioned by others, since the privatization of Qantas the motivations behind the management of the airline has purely been about profits rather than what the business was supposed to be; The Spirit of Australia, which it no longer is. In private hands it is definitely not the Australian Flagship Airline that it used to be, even though some people seem to feel that it is. There is far better service available on many other alternate airlines now. After my own personal experiences with Qantas over a number of years. I simply avoid flying with them any more. Airlines should never lie to their customers, however Qantas has become exceptionally good at that practice from what I have witnessed.
@@melonbobful Greed does not justify the disenfranchisement of the employees as well as the public. Bisiness ethics is in short supply these days an customer service is an extremely rare phenomenon the more time passes. Greed seems to be all that matters. I am not as proud to be Australian as I once was, due to the fact that communities are so unstable and hope has deminished significantly. Qantas is an excellent example of the a facilitator for undermining community.
@@melonbobful Thank you. I did appreciate that you were being light hearted. Perhaps the biggest concern for me was the decrease in the maintenance standards of the aircraft. For the gaining of profits they were willing to risk the wellbeing of all those that supported our once great airline. Thanks for your interaction.
The back handed sweetener deal to block Qatar flights in Australia for the price of putting YES on their planes is a disgrace.
Qantas safer reputation is no longer valid. I was stranded for a year and had to pay 3 times through Qantas to get home.
Would not support them again.
Alan Joyce should not get 24 million to leave he should give back his already paid salary.
I know many people who have had to deal with outsourced customer service, not with an airline, but with UK Open Access Operator Grand Central. This customer service company would announce that a service had been cancelled, but would list a service which didn't exist, they would then provide alternative travel details for passengers to board the train at a later stage but would tell passengers to get trains which would arrive well after the connecting train would leave,
I used to always fly Qantas as a first choice. Now I only fly Qantas if there is no other alternative. In the past few years, I have been screwed around by Qantas so many times, that disruption of my travel plans has become the rule, rather than the exception. No other airline I have used has come anywhere even close to the cock-ups and lousy service I have experienced with Qantas. I am hoping that the new CEO can turn around this once great airline, that used to be our country's pride, but she will have her work cut out to do that, in the short term anyway!
The cancellation of QF93, an overseas flight cancelled with two days notice was unbelievable, what was the whole story? Airlines were once touted as customer centric to be emulated by others, but something changed.
Remember even something as little as the images of Qantas planes in a turnaround surrounded with bright red Qantas GSE? You can still see them in some ports as some ground-handling contractors aren't fussed about rebranding the old QF gear they received (just remove the Qantas stickers, add their own and call it a day) but it just isn't the same. Outsourcing was already pretty established in Qantas under Alan Joyce before COVID. From maintenance, to catering (selling off QCatering to Dnata in 2017), and ground-handling on a smaller scale. Looking at the before and after for Joyce, there's just less Qantas in Qantas if that makes sense, feels hollowed out.
No more Qantas for our family. Voting NO for Qantas too . Sad to see how the company deteriorated, morally and operationally.
A balanced review of the mess Qantas is in now due to its ex CEO and absurdly pliant board enthralled by him. He went, the board should go soon too. Their reputation is in the toilet and they need (and will get ... from the investors) a complete reset in people at the top, including the entire board. Pity the poor people who gave their all to a company they loved, only to be dumped on the street.
I quote a customer service operator when I complained about Qantas New Zealand who caused my flight to be missed …. They are multinational not a national flag carrier. Out sourcing was their biggest issues and mistakes. Why he was employed is beyond me ruined Aer Lingus…..
If you dig deeper, in the mid to late 90s, Qantas was on the verge of bankruptcy. Initially the Australian Government did not wanted to help, instead seeking private investors to bail out the airline. Singapore Airline stepped in and willing to buy them out. This initiated a debate in the Australian parliament, who tend opted to reject the offer, because they wanted to keep Qantas Australian. This was pure rubbish, as it was their protectionism, racial discrimination, and pride, that prevented them from taking up the offer when no other airlines would.
In the end, the Australian Government decided to bail them out, creating a monopoly where Australians pay a lot more for their tickets, as there was little to no competition
Qantas needs a Go Forward plan. The new CEO needs to be a visionary. Totally focused, 24/7, on Qantas, with no distractions. The good news is that Qantas has a fantastic head start with branding. For a new CEO, that means putting the best people in place to support the new vision for Qantas. If I were given an airline that has lost its way but has the right ingredients for a wildly successful business, I would choose Qantas.
everthing you just said is true,great reporting
A particulallry good episode this week. Wll done on a balanced and factual; assessment of a national dsigrace. I'm conflicted about my top FF status (P1) so much hard work and overspend to maintain and in doing so enduring an airline in decay, an outdated fleet that's is really a disgrace and cabin crew who clearly hate their jobs more often than not. YES - all first world problems but still a conundrum. Dancing with the devil I hate but keep getting lured back by misplaced loyalty and status chasing
Flew Qantas from Auckland to Sydney 3 hours on a cattle truck. THEN no less than SIX hours on an identical cramped 737 to Bali. Dreadful. Even the premium economy A380 was poor.
Last October, Qantas canceled my flight from Sydney to Singapore just a few hours before departure time and refused to refund. The only alternative they offered was a midnight flight. I wasn’t ablt to attend an important meeting because of it.
Joyce ruined the brand QANTAS and should be paying his bonuses back. All of them .
👍👍 for mentioning REX.
Nothing but praise for them from my experience.
I flew for this mob for 25 years and watched it morph from a wonderful service oriented company into a completely profit based operation leaving it a mere shell of its former self. The ultimate responsibility for this rests with the board, they should all be sacked and replaced immediately.
It's the same with British Airways, especially under the rule of Willie Walsh; pare back everything so that quality (and staff / customers) suffers, but then still claim all the glory of being a flag carrier. I actively avoid them. But it doesnt have to be like that - Singapore maintains quality and a high reputation. So many Asian and Middle Eastern airlines are far ahead now.
I haven’t flown on Qantas for holidays since 2004. Emirates, Etihad, Singapore and Qatar are operators I’ve used. Qantas is always 25-30% more expensive and generally fly older aircraft.
The last time I flew overseas with Qantas was in 2004. There was no entertainment in our section of the plane due to a technical issue. No compensation was give to us and I was flying for 9 hours.
Joyce was the symptom not the disease. QANTAS needs to overhaul its board to inject more aviation industry expertise. The board selected Joyce, agreed Joyce's employment package and performance targets, and signed off on Joyce's plans and strategies. If Joyce oversaw the slow demise of the QANTAS brand he was only able to do so because of the inadequate oversight of the board.
Even John Travolta is disgusted by how Qantas suddenly went downhill
I walked past the Sydney Qantas HQ on the day Joyce was leaving & two TV crews were set up on the edge of the pavement. All very surreal as I had just watched the breakfast tv news show!
Wow, this caught me totally off guard!
I had no idea Qantas is going through issues like this.
I remember seeing the old ads fir Qantas as a kid with the koala saying;" I hate Qantas!"
Maybe that was a foresight for todays events.🤷🏿♂
Qantas was truly a respected company during it's ownership by the federal government it didn't make a huge profit but it's focus was to operations & maintenance and engineering of it's aircraft was considered the worlds best practice this is why they have never lost an aircraft (hull loss). There has been close calls that would of ended that record. Qantas had at one point had thousands of applicants wanting to begin their careers with Qantas hence their good standing amongst the community. Since Privatization this airline has been gutted to the core stripped of its reputation taken risks in the name of profiteering at the expense of it's operations. Quite frankly I am disgusted with their behavior and the government doesn't seem to want to intervene by re-nationalizing Qantas to restore reputation & confidence and put an end to this boardroom insanity.
The High Court of Australia has now ruled that QANTAS sacking of its' workers and outsourcing to replace them during the pandemic was illegal. QANTAS had appealed to the High Court previous Federal Courts also finding this.
I am surprised that Saturday Night Live has not made fun of Qantas and Alan Joyce in particular.
It started way way before the pandemic. The unions threatened to strike over not reaching a pay and conditions agreement in 2011 and Joyce decided to ground the entire Qantas fleet worldwide, causing chaos to 70,000+ passengers. Sad the actual company decided to put passengers last in the case.
What do you expect from Alan Joyce the CEO of Qantas behaving like a 5 year old child having a tantrum because he couldn't get his way. Thank God he has gone, be it 10 years too late.
It’s a putrid mess atm.
Deserves all the scrutiny and prosecution that will inevitably come their way
I still maintain that Canada has the world's worst airlines, but Australia is plainly competitive!
Alan Joyce is the worst CEO Qantas has ever had, that is his legacy. He should have been stripped of his last lot of bonuses. Thank God he has finally gone. He is a disgrace to our national carrier and holding the CEO position. The whole Qantas board needs to be sacked too.
One big issue is IR.
Qantas does not negotiate or involve their staff in EBA negotiations.
All done through unions.
Unions who often don't listen to their members.
2:47 you could say that of the entire government. No other country turned their back on their own citizens faster than the Australian government. If they insisted on closed borders and quarantine, the least they could have done is subsidized them. Instead, they left Australians overseas to die. Horrible. And the worst thing? 86% of the country supported these measures. I’m not sure if caring is a core Australian value at all.
I flew on QF30 from HKG-MEL in July 2008 when the oxygen bottle blew. Thanks to the excellent experienced crew I am here to talk about it. Fast forward to 2024 I would not fly on a Qantas plane again. Witnessing the decline in quality of service and product. I do not feel safe or confident on a QF aircraft. Over a decade of gold and platinum FF you notice things. Even the Qantas Lounge became more like a interstate bust waiting area. Besides losing my patronage, they lost my family and any international travel for business purposes. Does Qantas care? No, neither do I about them
What oxygen bottle
Ty dj!!
Qantas doesn't just need a mindset change, policy change, or service quality change. It needs a board change. And the sooner that happens, the better.
I flew qauntas about a year ago..ive flown most of there planes a380 787 737 @330 etc but i just dont like them overpriced and theres better options depending on where you fly..having said that ive flown jetstar alot when i can get a good price and ive never had any trouble great low budget airline
How does over-reliance on COVID-grounded A-380 aircraft fit into this problem? Expensive airplanes on the ground or flown not full are boat anchors!
The A380 was a massive mistake to replace the 747s. Too many money losing economy seats. Too many engines. Too much maintenance. Qantas should have bought the 777-300s, which I believe was the original plan. This decision was made by Mr Joyces' predecessor, and he was stuck with brand new dinosaurs.
Good video.
Taking payment for a service one has no intention of supplying? Sounds like a fraud.
Perhaps that new Global Airways should look to set up a subsidiary in Australia.
Qantas staff are generally fantastic. I was delayed on a Jetstar flight a few months ago with a technical problem on the ground - the engineers got the plane in the air, the pilots were very professional, and the Cabin crew made us feel assured while we waited. They are great people who are badly let down by their arrogant management.
When Qantas is called the "spirit of Australia" the first thought I had due to the quality was.....,,, Why Would Qantas want to be known as the Sprit Airlines of Australia
Unfortunately the new CEOs former job was CFO. That word FINANCIAL makes for a SCARIER future. People with finances at the forefront usually care about one thing and one thing only. As Joyce said many times, his job is to look after the shareholders
Just look for Qantas pilots and staff walking through the airport. They are ashamed. Heads down. People all thinking the same thing. Shame on Qantas.
Well the biggest problem Qantas had has left. The former CEO.
How did he even get that gig?
I think the Qantas board needs shaking up too.
I’m sure Qantas will try to work back the trust they stole.
It’s an iconic airline.
Meanwhile I think I’ll travel with Star Alliance. Air NZ & Singapore Airlines.
Time to sashay away. I’m not spending money on anything that isn’t delivering flyer loyalty points when required, & on time gate times….& my baggage.
How could Qantas have gutted itself of all the experienced people it once had.?
Beyond belief.
Downfall? I highly doubt that if they’re making revenue/profit. It’s the legacy carrier for Australia, citizens/loyal customers will always find ways to fly with the company. Let’s be honest at the end of the day it’s all about the money.
AJ absolutely stuffed Qantas never recover open up the airways ASAP
Qautas has been hiring scabs.
And not re employing their loyal, expirenced staff.
This is causing serious safety risks for all it's flights.
See also Air New Zealand 😔
How can you be proud of a national airline if it also holds a monopoly in the vast majority of the country while charging crazy prices?
and in New Zealand (from what I recall) there is a monopoly on domestic flights by Air NZ. Air NZ did everything they could and succesfully stymied any other domestic airline start up at the time. When I still lived in NZ, a flight from Auckland to Christchurch was far more expensive than a flight on Cathay Pacific from Auckland to HK. Yes, they can...because they have a government sanctioned monopoly- just like Telecom in those days, the milk, cheese and butter company, and various others.
I blankly remember Joyce revealing a strategy similar to Ryanair
This will blow over in no time.
Cutting corners in order to maintain a high rate of return for investors is not the way to run a successful company. Qantas had previously attained an excellent reputation, but apparently some executive decisions are destroying it.
The turn around will ONLY happen when the board is sacked and a new board installed
It has neve been the "Spirt of Australia" It goes back to the time Hudson-Fish would not fly during storms.
Qantas management especially Alan Joyce is to blame for his ruining a great aussie airline. Flying planes that are older than 25 years, cutting in-house staff and taking FAT PAYCHECK while doing it. I hope they can charged for ruining a once great company
I've probably been on 20 QF flights over the past three months and I've never heard such unenthusiastic pilots over the tannoy.
Joyce is solely to blame for the trashing of this once much envied airline. It is going to take years - decades - before it is anywhere near the airline of bygone days. And it will never be the same.
I find it disturbing to hear that costs were cut but AJ gave himself a $21M bonus. Then you wonder how much the other high level executives also got. Was money really saved overall? I wonder.
For Qantas the words of the old Yazz song " The Only Way Is Up" comes to mind, well it won't be with any of my money.
New ground handling isn't the problem. The exact same people that service Qantas also service 3 of the top 5 safest airlines in the world with no error. The systems in place put there by Qantas themselves are the reason there are loading errors. But I suppose it's easy to blame the guys and girls below the wing, doing the hard work, rain, hail or shine, working 50+ hour weeks with equipment in no where near the amout or standard they need.
It finished in my book Jet Star same OPEN UP AIRWAYS
Now that the "wicked" Leprechaun has exited and taken his enormous pot of gold with him, the airline may have a chance!
Qantas under new CEO Vanessa Hudson has the mammoth task of regaining the trust of Australia's flying public and returning the once admired national carrier back into our Favour.
The Qantas Board also needs a clean out. CEO Alan Joyce didn't make company direction without their approval and the board must take responsibility for the dire position the company is in.
I want Qantas to be great again! But they've got a lot of work to do. Here's hoping the "Sirit of Australia" still has a heartbeat.
I think Australians will not tolerate the re-brand and will avoid booking with the company and will use other carriers.
It's like the saying goes..."fish starts to rot at the top"!
Flying to USA often, Qantas has lost me. I take the extra leg via Air NZ. A much better airline and the crews are more courteous
The new CEO Hudson was part of Joyce's "leadership" team, so not much chance of a revival whilst the stench of Joyce remains.
I’m currently in Japan, I flew here from Sydney. I flew here with Singapore Airlines. Qantas was never an option for me I considered when I booked the ticket. It’ll take a lot of change for me to consider them again.
I have been a loyal customer of QANTAS for over 40 years now. I have so many QANTAS Frequent Flyer points that all these days I use them for is buying merchandise from their catalogue. The last time I used points to fly from Perth to Sydney return [business class] was in 2013. Air fares have increased since then.
Allan Joyce should be made to pay back the $21.9 million dollars that have been given to him through him leaving as CEO as this is not a hard position to fill. That money could be spent on paying all of the customers that booked flights on QANTAS when QANTAS had already cancelled those flights. I am ashamed and embarrassed that QANTAS has this current situation and if I was a billionaire, I would buy QANTAS and reinstate all of the employees that were dismissed during the COVID period. Shame Allan Joyce ... SHAME!!! DM.
Qantas isnt our flag carrier or national carrier. Its a privately owned company.
The entire Board also requires a cleanout.
Australian spirit has never been so mean spirited than Qantas.
Joyce and the board destroyed this brand. Utterly shameful short term thinking.
I now see VA as our new flag carrier
Even after being associated with qantas for over 20 years I have never been convinced they are value for money- will continue to avoid them as much as possible
Plz tell me why Qantas is twice as expensive but half as good as other airlines on the same route
You haven’t mentioned the age of their fleet.
Alan Joyce and his Exec looking at Travelling Australian as Cash Cows' and he looks at Qantas Employees as his subject slaves-
I wonder if Alan Joyce would retire, or helm another carrier overseas.
What like Rod Eddington, who came from QF and started the cost cutting at BA.
Honestly Joyce would do an awesome job running RYANAIR
Joyce was taking the piss. Once this became his sole priority it was only a matter of time before he drowned the airline. He finally reached selling tickets that didn’t exist and giving himself a multi-million dollar bonus for doing so.
His achievement is finding how much piss taking will drown an airline. How even knew that was a thing?
The planes are old, dirty, stained, chipped and scuffed. Average fleet age is 15+ years. There are a lot from the early 2000s. They are going to have to spend a HUGE amount to come even close to competitors like SQ and the Middle Eastern airlines. No wonder Qantas wants to restrict international competition
If you swap Qantas with Air New Zealand the story would be more or less the same. Must be something in the Tasman sea we're both drinking.
How so?
The foreign ownership needs to be lowered.
Well, to share an opinion is one thing, but some times it may cause you some trouble. Did you get this checked before putting it up? I hope so.
Every Australian knows this to be true - sadly.