I used to think that GT was the best aviation Journo in Oz but his recent articles and appearances on Sunrise had revealed him to be a mouthpiece for management spin. In particular, his comments about QF schedule reliability throughout 2008 (in particular during the ALAEA's PIA ban on overtime) are purely management spin. Everybody who was involved in QF operations at the time, knows that Qantas management were trying to fly a schedule for which there were insufficient aircraft (essentially due to the late delivery of the A380s & management ineptitude wrt the grounding of EBU at Avalon). Even if the engineers were not conducting PIA, there would have been extensive delays/cancellations as aircraft unservicabilities routinely happened (exacerbated by the lack of any reserve aircraft capacity), but GT seems to not want to present this to the public. Alan Joyce is still telling the media about how bad the ALAEA's actions were and GT is meekly assisting him in delivering this erroneous message. It's about time that he started to get his independence back by doing more searching investigation & then telling the truth to the public.
Last edited by Going Boeing; 24th Aug 2009 at 08:12.