"Want to make money in aviation, then run an airport, a catering company, ground handling company etc."
A sound statement.Why then does QF hand customer airline ground handling contracts to the competition.Citing low margins as the reason may be good cause to explore ways to increase those margins,however,despite efforts by staff to lower those costs eg smaller gangs handling multiple aircraft simultaneously, contracts continue to be lost.The wages of the ramp workers are not that great and considering they are turning a/c around with half the staff of the opposition that only leaves the cost of their support network ie management, to consider.
Shareholders should be questioning the loss of this income stream.
One senior manager was heard to state that $40 mil of income to engineering from other operators through the line maintenance dept was, in the big scheme of things a drop in the bucket.So now QF line maint has lost the majority of that income and is now overstaffed yet still no decision on the redundancies, agreed to at a time when understaffing was a problem.WTF!