RW,
Yep, you're right. It appears that Sunfish has detemined that the destruction of QF will cure his pain. Unfortunately, as I pointed out previously, this is akin to a "Cargo Cult" mentality.
I guess that I can't help thinking that we really need to separate Qantas the icon, from the people who are "managing" this national treasure at the moment. Owing to historical quirks, Qantas is the oldest, continuously operating, safest airline in the world (WWII sort of stuffed KLM). Surely it is up to us to husband this responsibility. If people don't understand that QF pilots and engineers don't realize we could lose that in a heartbeat, then they have rocks in their head.
Opposing this is an army of spreadsheet weilding accountants who believe the world conforms to the current version of XL. Unfortunately, from my experience, an accountant's view is advice only. And anyway, they'll be gone in a few years, and simply don't care.
Perhaps we need to think about the "
pale blue dot" .....
Ah, what the hell.
Where's the rest of that Cabernet ..............
N