Qantas has always responded and even though they have been a private company for over a decade they still feel a sense of responsibility to the Australian public.
It's quite obvious though, that the CEO of QANTAS doesn't appear to have the same "sense of responsibility" towards his QF Australian employee underdogs.
And talking about flights to SE Asia, the Michelle Corby case - and subsequently the Camel's Head incident highlighting the LACK of security, and subsequent IRRESPONSIBILTY of QANTAS towards Australian aviation security again raises its head.
Dixon would replace the QF Aussie workers in the blink of his eye, if he could - if we are to believe much of what is stated here by so-say QF employees who contribute to this forum.
I understood that the Virgin Blue crew
volunteered their services for the evacuation relief flight of Phuket.
IMO, Emirates, and Virgin Blue treat their AUSTRALIAN staff employees far more fairly then do Dubbo Dicko and The Dame.
I
was a QF FF'er, but am now switching my $$$'s to Virgin/Pacific Blue.