AoB
The great little cousin of AN is haemoraging badly under equally inept recievership as its uncle endures.
The loads have come up locally but yield is abysmal as the confidence base and the source of 90% of the revenue (travel agents) have been out of the recovery loop until just recently.
Wonderful staff who ran an excellent operation are being treated like crap by the admin leeches and are seeing their little lady slip away.
A proud airline that was running well and profitably has been bastardised by the AN/NZ coalition and their high profit routes have been over run by QF link - SYDCBR - SYDCFS - SYDBNK - SYDABX - MELDPO and fair is fair - who can blame the Rat. It had to happen to provide the service. Internal SA is the one remaining untouched gem.
AN forceing the CRJ on KD is mostly to blame - A very hard aeroplane to make money on in Oz and particularly on the routes it was assigned but with AN yield management - impossible. With the KD dudes running it - a better than even chance.
Don must be spinning in his grave - even though he had told the AN toecutters that he did not want his name on their aeroplanes for their behaviour and lack of airline expertise.
The creeps moved in the day that Don was on the table being operated on for cancer - so he could not be there. Sick bastards.
EWL