It's a pity
Sir Shiraz says he wants clarity yet continues with the undiluted venom. Get a grip, some high profile Oz businessmen of the '80s have only recently emerged from gaol or escaped going there by getting buried. I think a bit of temperate thought is called for instead of the threats of visiting national disaster on a near neighbour which are best left to extremist terrorist organisations, which you lot are beginning to echo.
Everyone seems to think its a Kiwi problem. It isn't. The courts will decide if it's an Air NZ problem so let them decide. If crimes were committed then retribution will be had but no-one ever went to gaol for making a mistake and getting involved with Ansett in the first place appears to have been a big one.
Of course Helen Clark isn't going to use KIWI TAXPAYERS' money to save Australian jobs. Would you lot lift a finger to save Kiwi jobs? Get a grip on reality for God's sake!
From our side of the ditch it looked like a reverse takeover with the disproportionate number of skips at the top, including the manager of flt ops, and talk of moving the whole shooting match to Melbourne. IF money was moved out of the combined treasury just before the collapse, and I don't know if that's true or another wild rumour or not, it's either larceny on the grandest scale OR it's Air NZ getting back some of the money THIS part of the airline has pumped into YOUR part of the airline (remember, Air NZ domestic made a killing in the last 6 months and has kept the lot going, BOTH sides of the Tas, longer than was wise or prudent it turns out) before the receivers got their hands on it, or doesn't a nett loss of $1.5b satisfy you. It's an airline not a charity.
Read one of my earlier postings re self serving pols, businessmen etc and for once reflect on the fact that although Australia is the 'lucky' country it may not be the perfect country some correspondents to this thread seem to think. People in glass-houses shouldn't throw stones.
It is obvious from the tone of some of the postings in this thread emanating from Australia that their families have lived in Australia for generations, right back to the first white settlers in fact! I'm coming to the view that, as 70% of the Ansett pilots are scabs anyway - who cares? Judging by other forums you're unemployable as pilots elsewhere so go down to the local casino for a job, they need spinners there.
