QANTAS are already competing quite successfully on the overseas scene, and showing record profits to prove it.
No-one - but no-one, is worth $6 MILLION dollars + package per year - and especially someone who is yet again forecasting more gloom and doom for the company which from which he receives these outlandish payouts.
It doesn't take an astute individual to cut costs simply but cutting staff numbers.
If he had any talent, I would expect to see a CEO making fine adjustments to improve efficiency of work schedules, and having office deadwood actively working at the coalface, instead of taking extended lunch breaks, running off to the loo every 30 minutes, and generally not being where they are supposed to be (their desks) more than half the time.
QANTAS carries far too much chaff in their offices - chaff that could, in the main, be put on as part time labour and be just as productive as they are now, but paid much less.
There is no shortage of office staff who would jump at the chance to have some permanent temp work.