Re: Qantas to cut 1,000 Jobs.
Alan Joyce and board should all offer their resignations, it is clear that are mismanaging the airline. 5 years and the airline has not improved it's financial situation and has lost more than it's gained and that's not acceptable.
The complaining about loosing business and not being able to compete is utter cough. If you are loosing business and can't compete, improve your product. Look at the Domestic J on the trans cons and even the 737's theres so many different products at least Virgin only has 2 main ones and a couple of rouge 330's with an average product but better chances on their Trans Cons of getting a better product than QF.
QFi, of course it's loosing money Mr Joyce you have cut all of the route and diminished the service to a non existent service out of Perth and Adelaide how can you possible expect to make money out of a division that has done nothing but cut routes and if you weren't making money on them the question has to be asked? Especially out of Perth every other airline can offer several daily services to the City's you have cut so your product has to be looked at.
The whinging about foreign ownership is pathetic, if the airline had of invested money in ensuring the soft and hard product was consistent and you weren't constantly telling the media and public how gloomy the future for Qantas is people might actually fly on Qantas, however the fleet is a mixed bag of old and new aircraft, the on board product is a joke domestically as you never know what you are going to get....that should not be the case. Longhaul the product is great.
Instead of expanding Jetstar internationally they should have been expanding Qantas with the 787's given JQ all of the A330's and had a 787 fleet that could be used for Transcon and Medium Haul.
The fleet should have been focused to have had A380's, 747's, 787's and 737's, 717's and Q400's. Realistically the airline should have bought 777's but anyways.
Personally I don't think a CEO should be standing up telling us how desperate a company is and crying poor because of their complete and utter mismanagement of the business. Obviously they didn't want any competition and that way they could have offered a substandard product and charged the earth for it.
They have thousands of great staff, an excellent safety record and an excellent long haul product they need to capitalise on those points rather than spruke doom and gloom.
