Sunfish :An Outstanding Post
It is unbelievable that a CEO(a Company Employee) should benefit from the sale of the business he manages.
Had the APA bid been successful Dixon would have been $60million richer and this thread would be irrelevant simply because Qantas would not exist.
Qantas is not a good business nor a good airline and that is down to Dixon's poor management.
Jackson was also complicit in this.The Chairman should keep a close eye on the CEO.Jackson did not.Dixon was in effect both CEO and Chairman.Jackson was surplus to requirements and appropriately resigned.
Clifford is the style of Chairman Qantas required to keep Dixon accountable.
Dixon crippled Qantas.
For an airline to maintain its status as a premium carrier requires a level of Capital expenditure in both staff and equipment.Under Dixon the number of frontline staff declined,management numbers grew and the fleet aged.Service declined and ontime departures suffered as older aircraft required more and more maintenance.
Dixon cobbled together a mish mash of compliant individuals from Air NZ,TAA and Ansett.Three different cultures with no skill set to run an international airline.
The airline exists because the long suffering employees began ignoring management directives wherever they could.Passive resistance if you will.
The Qantas of today is the result of its management believing in its own infallibility.
Qantas now needs a leader to pull it back from the brink.Nothing so far suggests that it has one.
Meanwhile passengers,shareholders and employees continue to endure the agony