AJ will stay, only as long as he makes money for shareholders.
And he is not.
What Qantas staff and the SMH thanks on his tenure length is irrelevant. CEOs are there to produce
profits. He cannot even organise staff to answer phone calls after a year of complaints about how bad it is. The new wave of cancelled flights will not assist the bad vibe.
The past year has produced more bad PR for Qantas than the past 20.
Writer and commentator Phillip Adams has demanded the boss of Qantas remove the national airline's tagline from all branding immediately, as multiple crises engulf the company.
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I was Broome this week, and Qantas have totally cancelled 3 evening fights with no notice this month. Front page news there. Left passengers to find accommodation in THE dearest hotel market in the country. The Community there rallied to provide assistance with spare rooms etc, and a
terrible look for an airline.
'Writer and commentator Phillip Adams has demanded the boss of Qantas remove the national airline’s ‘Spirit of Australia’ tagline from all branding immediately, as multiple crises engulf the company.
The 82-year-old, who had been appointed an officer of the Order of Australia and received six honorary doctorates from Australian universities, made his mark during an illustrious career in film production and advertising, during which time he says he came up with the iconic tagline.
An incensed Adams made the demand on Thursday, addressing Qantas CEO Alan Joyce directly on Twitter:
“I’m the author of ‘the spirit of Australia’,” Adams wrote. “Then deserved, now tragically inappropriate.”
“My slogan is hereby vetoed. Please remove it from all fuselages, tickets and advertising.”
It comes amid a torrid time for the national airline, with the
public relations crises stacking up like lost luggage in the wrong terminal.
Qantas cancelled a staggering one in every 13 flights in May as it battled reliability issues. This morning the airline confirmed it was slashing domestic flight schedules by up to 15% through to September, and 10% to March next year.
This week Qantas also apologised to a grieving passenger who was left waiting for bag containing her mother’s ashes for more than four days after flying Heathrow Airport to Sydney, after a hefty social media pile-on.'
In large corporations, the buck stops at the top. Joyce is several years past his "Best By' date. Dead man walking right now. 
