Cheer up V-Jet, it's not all bad. At least the pollies and judges will be able to read the AFR again.
A new era has dawned at Qantas.
Sure, the company has still not properly apologised to the 1700 ground workers it illegally sacked, it hasn’t bought new planes, clawed back
Alan Joyce’s bonuses, returned COVID-era taxpayer support or ceased to furiously lobby the nation’s politicians. But it has, at least, reopened negotiations with the Transport Workers Union, and restored
The Australian Financial Review to its rightful place.
Passengers through Qantas’ hallowed Chairman’s Lounge this week have reported seeing copies of the nation’s preeminent business title on display, while economy-class enthusiasts have been able to access it on the Qantas Wi-Fi. New chief
Vanessa Hudson, we have since confirmed, has ended the former CEO’s boycott of this newspaper, which is once more available to Qantas passengers digitally and in corporal form.
The Australian Financial Review is no longer under Qantas boycott. Dominic Lorrimer
Earlier this year, Joyce and his chairman
Richard Goyder complained about scathing commentary by
Joe Aston in this column to the
Financial Review’s senior editors. When that didn’t work, the airline “
rationalised” the number of newspapers on offer to its customers.
Through it all, this newspaper continued to publish commentary that was critical of Qantas, and still does. Yet, with Joyce gone, the company’s never-official Financial Review ban has been overturned, seemingly restoring us, as far as Qantas is concerned, to (nearly) staid respectability. Hallelujah.
Not even
our competitors believed that excuse. Some of our readers even took to bringing in and leaving physical copies of this newspaper in Qantas lounges: part protest, part gift to fellow weary travellers. We’ve never felt so illicit.
Through it all, this newspaper continued to publish commentary that was critical of Qantas, and still does. Yet, with Joyce gone, the company’s never-official Financial Review ban has been overturned, seemingly restoring us, as far as Qantas is concerned, to (nearly) staid respectability. Hallelujah.
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