Originally Posted by
Popgun
This action clearly fails the Pub Test. AJ and his senior advisors have failed to accurately read the room here.
With several pilot EAs due for renegotiation in the near future, I suspect that this current senior management team will only bargain with a modicum of honesty if they have the threat of protected industrial action on the table.
It will be interesting to see whether the pilot groups and their union/s move for overwhelming no votes followed by the lodgement of a PIA application.
PG
Perhaps all of this is another circus of drama and subterfuge.
Rather like a dull soapy, airlines are a grind. Got to inject some drama.
Mr Joyce is ill suited to transforming anything other than airline CEO remuneration (for himself) so a bit of theatre and drama may distract to duplicitous main stream media for a bit.
That and a few more Chairman's lounge memberships and family upgrades..
For Mr Joyce to dig in retort to threats is high risk. His thinly veiled rage in the emailed response if accurate and legitimate exposes him. The numbers presented here show the reality of Qantas performance and the reward received for a very average performance. With growing income inequality in Australia this is not a good optic.No amount of advertising spend into mainstream print and electronic media will cover it.
The public haven't forgotten 29 October 2011. Canberra hasn't forgotten it and the staff most certainly haven't.