EMMA ALBERICI: Is there a future with the style of airline that Qantas and British Airways have traditionally run?
KELL RYAN: I don't think so. Personally, because change is happening all around them, you know, we've had the events of 9/11 and we've had SARS and we've had fuel increases and stuff like that, so you have to be able to keep a handle, I think, on your costs. You have this threat from other low-cost carriers are eating into your market so you have to have a flexible work force, I believe, and you have to have people that can adapt to change.
We have the lowest cost base of any airline on the planet. We have the most flexible, dedicated workforce and we are profitable, and we've kept it simple.
That's strange!!
I thought I read somewhere(AFR) this week that QF has revised it's forecast profit by an extra 25%-30%.
But of course there is no place for Full Service airlines anymore.
Yeah right.
Spin Drs at their best
