Originally Posted by
dragon man
The bottom line IMO is that Jetstar should be folded into mainline, what were leisure routes 15 years ago are no longer. Running two outfits with seperate management, AOCs, training Department’s etc is just crazy . You buy a Qantas ticket you get the same conditions and service every where. Won’t happen, I know.
The duplication relates to everything. In order to firewall the labour groups, most structures, with the exception of treasury and aircraft sourcing have to be duplicated, right down to boarding pass readers at the branded gate.
There represented a unique opportunity circa 2003 to re-equip Qantas and set the airline on a course different to the current trajectory.
Qantas could easily have re-furbished the 734 and 763 into high density 'QantasLite' and used the same sunk cost (paid for by the taxpayer) to serve leisure markets. This was tried yet abandoned with Australian Airlines.
The mess that currently sees costs duplicated hidden by opaque accounts, is neither efficient nor replicated anywhere else in the industry. There is a reason why.