Have to agree with you Wiley, he certainly engendered loyalty which I find quite strange in the circumstances but then I never worked for any of varieties of Ansett. I have spoken to many who did and they all say the same, that it was a great company to work for.
I totally agree with the rest of your comments, especially about asset stripping. There was a very interesting story going about when Rod Eddington was brought back to Australia to take over the helm at Ansett. He, apparently, thought his job was to restructure the company to build it for the future. It appears he was very quickly disabused of that idea and told that he was to make it look good on paper so that it could be sold.
Orders are orders and he did the job. The company was sold to Air NZ and the rest is history.
