A succinct and accurate post.
He is an underperformer who only posesses the large mouth of a marketer.
His industrially driven policies are no match for quality. He has missed the continued assault by Emirates, Etihad and Singapore.
Year by year increment by increment they continue to encircle Qantas.
The answer?
Grow a low yield unproven "brand" at the expense of the mainline. The mainline product provides the yield. It is yield that provides the revenues for this poorly spoken uneducated yob to waste on some industrial wank fuelled by Oldmeadow's 20 year old vision of aviation.
He will be put out to pasture, as he is as old as history.
The scary part if his legacy will be that when the real numbers of J* are revealed from behind the clever veil of accountancy, it may well be too late. Cost is but one part of the profit equation. Importantly it is the transparency of this cost as it relates to "group" assets that is important. Something sadly missing in the accounts at Qantas.
He is a sad individual with ittle going for him who has, due connections been promoted far above his level of competence.