they are so lean in management that if you sacked a manager there'd be none left
But even sacking managers and operational staff is a long term solution to a short term problem. By the time redundancy payments are factored in, it will take at least 12-18 months before savings are realised. And by that time we will probably need to employ operational staff again as the situation returns to normal. (if we are still in the game). The Jetstar model is helping out the Qantas brand with it's lower cost base on the less profitable routes. But what is hurting us now is the loss of income from both paying passengers, and other operators that relied on our services until we forced a termination of our customer contracts.