Could just as readily been planted from Coward street.
With superlatives exhausted, an engineered fight with Canberra airport and a month to run on the FY, a bit of 'froth' for the ASX might help!
How about it QF START a new subsidiary called Qantas Domestic(TAA) , a brand new Airline with new staff at different pay rates , direct entry crews , would they need to sell JQ to do this , maybe !
would sure ease the training costs in Qantas as they gradually wind down the 737 ops !
Qantas had the opportunity to do just that with an embedded 734 operation, a gift from the Australian taxpayer. 734, crewed by the same already costed pilots, a fresh coat of paint and high density interiors, they had the Low Fare Airline almost ready to fly.
Instead what they preferred was an entire greenfield operation, all designed to lever downwards terms and conditions.