Originally Posted by
blow.n.gasket
What a steaming crock of Management inspired hogwash Reality !
Czech this !
Jetstar is the bastard child of Geoff Dixon and WorkChoices !
It was introduced as a greenfield enterprise to take advantage of the ability to introduce AWA’s under WorkChoice, unfortunately for Geoff ( who happened to be the ex head of the Australian Business Council and they stumped up money for Freehills to draft WorkChoices , thus Geoff had intimate knowledge of what would be in the new legislation !)
Unfortunately for Geoff the dream of waiting for all Qantas EBA’s to expire and then offering new AWA’s on a take it or leave it basis as WorkChoices was first written didn’t eventuate because of the ACTU campaign that spooked Howard into watering down the WorkChoice legislation.
That was when the rapid expansion of Jetstar occurred.
It was purely a Management inspired stalkinghorse to reign in the more recalcitrant militant unions in Qantas and to put downward wages pressure on all Mainline staff ,a form of reverse whipsawing .
Let’s face it your poor excuses of
Could have just as easily been achieved with deeply discounted seats offered down the back of Mainline aircraft without all the duplicated back office staff , management , ground staff, training departments ,engineering staff , checkin staff ,ground equipment , ,etc , etc.
Hardly an efficient use of capital if your main aim is to block foreign competition !
No it couldn’t have been achieved that way. Jetstar needs a lower cost base to offer lower fares for that segment of the market. Most of those functions were not duplicated. They were introduced commensurate with the increase in overall capacity as Jetstar grew and the overall market grew.