By the way "THe Qantas Group" seems to me to be an excuse for creating a multitude of senior management positions....
On that I agree.
... and a marvellous opportunity for creative accounting. I wonder what cross subsidies are applied across the group?
There are a few. A bloke I know went to management and said 'I know how to increase revenue by X dollars'. Management was ecstatic and asked him how. His response was along the lines of 'charge AO the same as we charge for every other 'outside customer' instead of giving it to them at a subsidised rate'. No prizes for guessing the response from management.
Double edged sword that one. AOs figures look better than they should be and the 'mainline' figures look worse than they should be. Mainline gets told they they're not being competitive enough and need to cut costs further.
This isn't Flight Ops either!
