Should the "project" that lacked an airframe capable, and at present, a regulator captured and pilot group beholden be shelved, it joins a long list.
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- Red Q to be headquartered in Malaysia, no wait Singapore, er just don't ask.
- A terminal Qantas, transformed. Not an aircraft, contract or network change to be seen. All rather curious.
- JQ HK that never actually complied with the rules required for principal place of business requirements. Desperately getting Pansy Ho on board. Herself a dubious character considered not fit and proper in Las Vegas...Quietly dropped with an execution price far greater than they admit publicly.
- JQ Asia's expansion, the Road to Nowhere. Foreign owned but paid for by Qantas shareholders. Ten years and counting with massive restructuring costs and not a tangible dollar of profit in sight.
- JQ Vietnam, good money after bad, no tangible profit from this "associate" entity. It did cost the shareholder s a classified fortune to release their management from Hanoi.
- An Emirates Alliance generating precisely how much additional revenue? Lots actually for Emirates, Qantas are reluctant to say.
- Moving their hub from Singapore to Dubai, to change the game. Cost $60 million
- Move said Hub back to Singapore, cost circa $50 million. (Perhaps this answers the point above)
On the plus side, the intervention in the Israel Folau saga never saw open court, gay marriage was secured and Little Napoleon now a wealthy individual, got married.
With the Jetstar illusion under pressure, a change in the pilot union and Christmas approaching, Little Napoleon will be scratching around for a distraction...
Could a subsidiary be bought in to start another of the internal wars his "legacy" is famous for?
In the meantime, Qantas sizzles like the Australian bush!
Leadership..