His most immediate concern, however, is to head off the campaign by Singapore Airlines to get permission to fly between Australia and the US.
He argues that not only would that leave Qantas facing four Star Alliance carriers on the Pacific, it would also mean giving away valuable rights without removing some of the obstacles Qantas faces out of Singapore.
I'm glad somebody is awake in the cockpit and he is dead set correct about the rest of the system being segmentalised for the purposes of defining the costs and profit centres but needing the component parts to work together.
It's the very simple sum of the parts exceeding the whole.
The world is littered with the carcasses of dinosaur airlines.