A comment on the above:
`The collective view about the airline as it is currently managed oscillates between despair, disbelief and ribaldry.
The current CEO pays lip service, as do all those cloned from the same DNA, to service and safety, but is just as obsessed by the bottom line as are his peers.
He has also done something which would have been anathema to his predecessors, and that is to politicise the airline in pursuit of his personal agenda.
This included the printed encouragement on Qantas’s Boarding Passes for the bearer to vote in favour of same sex marriage and the display of a modified boxing kangaroo waving the rainbow flag on the vertical stabiliser of one of the A330’s
One paragraph within Sandiland’s piece needs to be framed and displayed on the trophy walls of all these plonkers.
QF32 ought to be remembered for being a very loud wake-up call for airlines and air safety regulators world wide. Airlines can’t afford to be inefficient. But they can’t afford to turn into killers either. In the world beyond Qantas we can find too many instances of airlines where no responsibility, no control, and indeed, no clue seems to summarise the parameters of managements that emerge from business school with a near total contempt for technical or specialised knowledge, and a focus on short term gain that is totally at odds with any industry in which skills have to valued, nurtured, recruited, retained and rewarded.
Sandilands is right in saying this myopia simply invites the occurrence of other QF 32.
Bus travel has much to commend it.'