QF used to be run by Engineers and Pilots who fully understood the fact that the airline business was not like any other business and that A/C and Crew (ground and flight) were not liabilities but assets. If a dollar needed to be spent on maintenance or training then it was, no questions asked.
For far too many years now the airline has been run by accountants who know the cost of everything but the value of nothing!!!!
The whole strategy of rewarding managers (at least that's what they call them) with bonuses for reducing costs was only ever going to end up the way it has i.e rich managers and an airline that's fu#k*d. Segmenting the business and setting department against department in the cost cutting and blame game was another master stroke (NOT). There was no doubt fat needed to be trimmed a few years ago but the clowns have cut through the muscle and bone as well.
Very sad indeed.
