Hi Guys,
I would just like to express my commiserations to all the Ansett employees. It has been a terrible week.
As a New Zealander I feel I did nothing other than go about my daily business. I did not go to work every day hoping to make a whole bunch of Australians unemployed. Labelling every Kiwi as being responsible for Ansetts downfall is extremely unfair.
Some of the posts here don't really help the situation. I don't see how bringing Air NZ down by disrupting trans-tasman operations of Air NZ is going to achieve the aims of the Australian unions. Perhaps I am missing something.
I also agree that some hard questions need to be asked of the Air NZ directors.
What I don't get is why the Air NZ decided they had to have the other half of Ansett. Surely they owned it for long enough to realise what they were getting into.
There have got to be jobs again, the same number of people have got to get around Australia next week as they did two weeks ago.