Originally Posted by
Checklist Charlie
I'm sorry to say "Leady" but your sounds like sour grapes dating back perhaps to the Blue team and the Red Team scenario.
However if you insist with your line then I can add some QANTAS Captains were well known to respond to a greeting of "Good Morning" with "Thank you".
TAA's course was called ATM, the T standing for Team which is what we were.
CC
CC,
It long pre-dated the takeover of TAA by QF ---- the determined non-cooperation went back to pre-jet days --- indeed late 1940s.
To say the "culture" of the two organisations was diametrically opposed would be the understatement of the week.
A company, Q.A.N.T.A.S Ltd., that started off as a listed public company, and always traded as a public company (unlisted) even when almost all the shares were owned by the Commonwealth, versus the National Airlines Commission, a Labor government creation designed as the starting point for the nationalization of all Australian airlines, and trading as Trans Australia Airlines, TAA.
"TAA" was always grotesquely inefficient, hence the two airline policy, because Menzies didn't have the inclination to can TAA . But that is another story of short term political thinking, and politicians being snowed by "public servants" --- sound familiar.
At the time of the QF takeover, "TAA" was fundamentally broke, despite almost $900M being pumped into it in the year before by Treasury, mostly to fund the pension scheme, which was technically insolvent.
Tootle pip!!