Originally Posted by Dutch Roll
... Qantas will likely be a sh*t place to work under Joyce. He has absolutely zero respect for employees unless they roll over on everything he says and take it right up the clacker in every possible position. He is not interested in safety in the slightest (that info comes direct from an extremely experience flight-safety pilot who once applied for a high-level safety management position there, then withdrew after the conditions and culture permeating down from Joyce became apparent during discussions about the job).
As for me, I don't need the money, so if Joyce destroys Qantas Mainline by shifting it to a LCC model and thinking Australian mums & dads will still take holidays on budget carriers during a slowing economy and difficult economic circumstances, it'll be sad, but won't have a significant effect on me. I have other things I can do.
You know you have an old job you could walk back into DR
Although this:
He has absolutely zero respect for employees unless they roll over on everything he says and take it right up the clacker in every possible position.
does sound like your old workplace
I think your argument fails a simple logic test. A company who's goal is profit maximisation is not going to shift profitable premium routes onto the low cost model when you look at the strategic landscape.
From a strategic management point of view (my point of view), Joyce was leading an airline attempting to enter a market. Existing Market - Existing product leads itself to a penetration strategy - the strategy being Cost Leadership / Focus. The QF Model lends itself to a Differentiation (Focus). Joyce isn't a dumb man and knows the different.
He would know the strategic framework that each airline operates within. Jetstar - Price Differentiation , Qantas - Image / Support / Quality Differentiation.
It may sound like management speak but he wouldn't get the job if he didn't know it.
Ultimately customer demand on each route will decide who gets it, if most want price leadership then Jetstar will get it, if most want quality/support/image they'll go with QANTAS.
Relax, he's not going to turn QF into Jetstar (Note: I'm not suggestion he'll be saying 'pay rises all around!' as he still needs to keep costs under control).
Good luck to the man.