as i said before
GD announced dennis adams retirement. he was/is the protoge of andrea staines. expect reshuffle after the baord meeting december 7th. as i mentioned many moons ago here the australian airlines model failed due to the following.
no cheap pilots
expensive seperate management
seperate contractor for airports/marketing/etc
thin routes to fly with seasonal traffic
no business class
the only thing cheap on AO were cabin crew.
i personally doubt they will use the airbus 330-200 as this would require more pilot training (aipa would certainly not let qf easily fly other pilots the a330-s at half their current $ 257.- an hour plus +, plus) and have more then one aircraft type.
interesting times