Referring to the use of QANTAS 737 cargo holds as being under contract.
Its common knowledge within the industry QANTAS when they need freight capacity they use their 767's. Also my source in QANTAS states they are currently using the 767 fleet to fill in for the Aust air express contract because they cant fulfill their requirements.
This is creating further problems because the QANTAS 767 fleet is one of the few fleets that don’t have a surplus of crews.
A first tier manager directly under Dixon was instructed last week the 767 was too short of crews to handle the unplanned additional flights for Aus express, his reply went along the lines of he didn’t care they were going to do it anyway.