Originally Posted by
Sunfish
My interest is the development of the australian economy.
It is axiomatic that this requires Australian companies to be outward looking and internationally competitive to grow and prosper for the benefit of the Australian economy. To be clear, that term benefit means investment, international sales through competitiveness and resulting jobs and prosperity.
To achieve the above requires seamless and efficient international travel capability, inbound and outbound, from Australia.
Qantas does not provide anything like a service that supports the rest of the Australian economy.
To put that another way, your 30,000 jobs are at the expense of maybe 500,000++ Australian jobs because you act as a gatekeeper or parasite, preventing fast seamless access for Australian business to the rest of the world. In addition, your international services are biased towards Sydney which gives NSW a larger share of inbound investment than it warrants.
You and your management are quite capable of strangling any economic recovery post Covid - 19. Therefore it would be better for Australia to either nationalize you or let you go to the wall so that we can have true unfettered competition.
To put that another way, Qantas monopoly is a disaster for the Australian economy.
Nothing personal. You are just an economic pest.
this is a brilliant post. Long enough to print out and use as toilet paper.