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While you froth and foam about nothing in particular, you might consider the commercial environment that your employer finds itself in.
According to Derek Sadubin in today’s ‘Oz’, if you are booking travel overseas from Perth or Brisbane, there are seven chances out of 10 you’ll be flying with a foreign airline.
Comparable figures for Melbourne and Sydney are around six in ten.
It’s therefore hardly rocket science that QF will be looking for efficiency and productivity gains to try and improve market share.
At least your union appreciates this. In today’s Oz, Michael Majatov is quoted as saying that the union has no doubt that management will have a “massive” agenda, and is anticipating a tough bargaining environment.
Slagging off here anonymously, in some one else’s paid bandwidth, about John Howard, QF management and truculent passengers like me might make you feel good. Unfortunately, it doesn’t cut much ice at the bargaining table, or in the broader community. Like it or not, QF can (and does) have the best flight deck and engineering staff, yet be let down by the poor attitude of some of its cabin staff. And it’s the attitude that the punters remember, even though the rest of the package is first class.