The following may go some way towards showing why Qantas pilots are so disengaged and distrustful of anything coming from Qantas Management these days.
You should see the Engagement survey results.
Sydney, 08 December 2005: The board of Qantas Airways yesterday approved the establishment of a new long haul value based airline under the Jetstar brand. “
This expansion will not in any way be at the expense of the Qantas full service domestic and international operations. Our aim for the Group is to expand in our traditional markets with Qantas and to expand in new markets with the most suitable product, be it Qantas or Jetstar. The Qantas mainline operations are and will remain our primary focus. Jetstar will have opportunities to fly to destinations already served by Qantas mainline, but from alternative Australia ports to the current Qantas services.”
Darwin, 1 March 2006 – Qantas Group Services for Darwin: “The new schedule will see… Jetstar replacing Qantas on services to Darwin from Melbourne"
Melbourne, 11 April 2006 – Qantas Group International Networks: “ Cairns remains a major hub for Qantas international service, 49 flights per week
Qantas will continue to provide: Double daily flights between Cairns and Tokyo (now gone), daiily flights between Cairns and each of the Japanese cities of Nagoya and Osaka (also gone), a total of seven services per week to Bali from Sydney, Melbourne and Perth,
with Sydney and Melbourne flights to progressively transition to Jetstar (we no longer serve bali)”
Sydney, 06 September 2006 – Qantas Group Service to Townsville: “The Qantas Group today announced that Jetstar would
replace Qantas mainline operations between Sydney and Townsville from 29 October 2006”
Cairns, 16 November 2006, Qantas Announces Changes to Japan Services: “Jetstar will
replace Qantas Airways services from Cairns to Nagoya and Osaka from mid-2007.”
Sydney, 5 June 2008, Qantas Announces International Schedule Changes:
“ The
replacement of Qantas’ 14 weekly 767 Cairns – Tokyo (Narita) services with a daily Jetstar non-stop A330 two-class service from December 2008.
Mr Dixon said Jetstar would also
replace Qantas on Perth – Denpasar Route, with up to four Jetstar 320 services taking over from Qantas’s 737-800 services from December 2008. Perth – Jakarta, with 3 Jetstar 320 services per week
replacing the existing Qantas service”
Remember Dixon saying Jetstar would not grow beyond 5 aircraft.
What about this pearl, Jetstar will not compete head to head with Qantas Mainline.
The list goes on and the staff more distrustful.
With reference as to what a c-series is ,look here
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