My story:
AJ - good on you, rather instant pain than a cut of 1000 deaths
JM - grow up - you knew nothing the same as everyone else
SP - did you or you union read my poll? I did say your full house of Jacks was about to be trumped by Aces! (JM - see, I put it in writing a few weeks ago)
QF-FF, good on you, my MEL/SYD flights booked onto tonight, 5 minutes to get through, 30 seconds to get answered, 15 seconds to re-route me MEL/CBR/SYD on QF Link
VA - good on you offering a 20% discount on fares.... (that is sarcasm by the way)...... but you couldn't have paid for the media exposure, make it 50% and become Australian instead of the funnel for RB's new Island or Space Station fund....
Air Asia - you guys seem to be the only genuine "we'll help you out if we can" airline
JG - see you, your wrought incompetent communist government is going...
All the pro and against reads (except the idiotic posts) on this thread - keep it up, its better than the Sunday papers. Is it just me, or is there an influx of new posters all with the same outlook?
If this lasts for 3 weeks, I have 9 QF flights pre paid affected, but on a positive, I have 3 or 4 VA flights unaffected!
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So, the short sightedness of the unions has now seen Qantas start playing the final hand in this game of Texas holdem. The unions hold a pair of jacks, the flop, turn and river are a jack and 2 aces - the union does not realise the full house they believe will win them the game, is about to be trumped by the two aces that Qantas hold.
What are these aces? Simple. Qantas has started and will continue to ground aircraft to offset cost/losses. Airfares will increase until only very resilient customers will continue to pay the union forced fare increases, and another Australian icon will wither to a point of no return.
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