I heard Mr. Dixon on ABC radio yesterday, to put it mildly, I was unimpressed. He refused to confirm or deny the Newport Aviation allegation and he waffled on about QF dealing with "a lot of contractors and agencies". Three times the interviewer tried to pry this out of him.
He also repeated the allegation that the union had "reneged" on an agreement struck in February. You could hear the contempt for his workforce in his voice, which to me is unsurprising because the Board and his senior management is populated by narcissists (The media has now woken up to this phenomena and now terms them "Industrial Psychopaths") who care not a jot for the "little people" that work for them.
BTW, brilliant post by Take Five, and that bit about positioning JAL at stand 92, much to JAL's displeasure, is a classic narcissistic ploy by someone who now feels much more important as a result.