Ho hum.
Qantas is a business that is trying to reduce its costs. Any business, airline or otherwise, would show similar signs during enforced cost cutting.
All just very standard business. This story says nothing about Qantas but everything about run-of-the-mill business.
Liam Bartlett has been around for a long time. He knows that Qantas is a business and that businesses have no choice but to do these things from time to time.
But his job is to write articles like these. His income depends on his ability to package up a story that will be swallowed by the masses.
Chief executive officer Alan Joyce will do anything to protect the bottom line ...
Of course - that is the whole point. If Liam was a shareholder of Qantas he would insist on nothing less. (Liam may well be a shareholder - his article was all about selling newspapers and
not necessarily what he personally believes Qantas should, or should not, be doing).