Reeltime: As you say Staff disengagement would accelerate, if that's possible, when people realize that there is no light at the end of the tunnel, just several more years for Gregg to finish what Dixon has started.
There was a piece in the Fin Review a few weeks back stating that at the 3rd State of Origin RL game in Sydney the Qantas Box was hosted by Peter Gregg.
Present were:
David Coe, he of Allco Finance which shows that that relationship is still strong,
Allen Jones, he of Sydney am radio which shows that Gregg is smart having such a powerful voice in his team - does Jones ever knock Qantas and Dixon like he does other organisations and their leaders?
and I believe it mentioned two Queenslanders in Kevin Rudd and Wayne Swan
Further to Sunfish: The piece about Or, to put it another way, anyone in senior management who represented a challenge to Dixon and his ilk, for example, by exemplifying the natural authority won by having a high degree of airline experience and technical knowledge, as opposed to formal authority, will have been removed during Dixon's reign.
I wonder how many people with a high degree of airline experience and knowledge have been shunted in the past 2, 5 or 10 years because they perhaps stood up to Dixon or any of his senior team? perhaps those people could be listed?
Wasn't it mentioned a few years back that when David Forsyth 'retired' from Qantas he did so because he could no longer work under Jackson and Dixon seeing what they were doing to the airline?