If you go into the history of the company you will find that QF does a "purge" every four years or so. Like lemmings they fire all the good and reliable staffies, and keep the dobbers, the lazy, and the well connected. Nobody has ever been able to work it out, and I can well remember back in the eighties, they hired a company, called by staff "munch and crunch" who fired just about anybody who had achieved anything. I often wonder if it is instigated by a poor quality middle management, who stuck half way up the ladder, make sure nobody with any brains or knowhow comes after them. It is a mystery, that the QF1 (and the rest) takes off every day, QF really does fly in spite of itself. I can only put it down to the loyality of the good survivers, who know that the QF management motto is " you do the right thing by us and we will stick the bat up your a#se everytime" just keep on keeping on. This is just history repeating its self.