Joyce had plans to outsource ground handling back when he took over in 2008. In fact, he had discussions with Dixon back when Dixon was Chief Excrement Officiator at QF during AJ’s early Jetstar days. The idea was to have EGH or someone similar do the ground handling on both JQ and QF aircraft. Some of us who have ‘consulted’ with these airlines have seen many a publicly unseen paper/proposal that confirms this. But the timing wasn’t right as there was a lack of appetite for a war with the unions. However today is now the perfect environment for the little parasite to celebrate his 12th year as QF CEO (last weekend) and outsource the ground crew. Naturally, it all falls under the ‘COVID mantra’ and financial difficulties the airline faces due to these ‘unprecedented times’. The white shoe brigade like Joyce and Hrdlicka will always see to capitalise on a ****ty situation so as to benefit their personal pockets at the expense of other human beings. That is not a sticking point for a CEO, the hurt done to innocent parties/employees/third party providers because CEO’s are sociopaths and have no heart, just a big dark empty cavern.
And Joyce’s move will flow down to Qantas engineering who will have less GSE to service, and there will be no more aircraft Engineers walking the aircraft out during pushback anymore, it will be Swissport type third parties. More pain to come.