Pray tell, Flying Tiger, where are these clever ideas that Mr Dixon can lay claim to, as being uniquely his?
Rather than uniting QANTAS employees, he is dividing them, indicating - imo - an INability to be able to successfully negotiate with his charges.
Instead he has chosen the easy way out. Break QANTAS up into small parcels (creating many more management positions along the way), to get out of current employee work contracts and conditions, ala point76's post..."LCC salaries ,no staff travel.no Super etc".
In a sentence "Screw the employees", whilst continuing to richly reward yourself.
The lcc concept is apparently a COPY of Brett Godfrey's Virgin Blue - and NOT a Geoff Dixon "special".
Given the funds to which he has access there are probably at least a dozen or more other people who could make the same "bold move and hard decisions".
Hard for whom?
The soon-to-be unemployeds??!!
IMO the QF staff deserve better than they're going to get - but Dixon appears unable or unwilling to spend time on trying to do the right thing.